m8gb.metal-24xl vs g4dn.metal

Instance Typem8gb.metal-24xlg4dn.metal
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGPU instance
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
metal-24xl – Bare metal
Machine Learning (ML), 3D visualizations, graphics-heavy remote workstations, 3D rendering, application streaming, video encoding, and server-side graphics tasks.

g – GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
4 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs9696
Memory384 GiB384 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon Family
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnoyes
GPU NameT4
GPU ManufacturerNVIDIA
GPUs8
GPU Memory16 GiB
GPU Total Memory128 GiB
Inference Acceleratornono
Accelerator Memory128 GiB
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8gb.12xlarge, m8gb.16xlarge, m8gb.24xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gb.48xlarge, m8gb.4xlarge, m8gb.8xlarge, m8gb.large, m8gb.medium, m8gb.metal-24xl, m8gb.metal-48xl, m8gb.xlargeg4dn.12xlarge, g4dn.16xlarge, g4dn.2xlarge, g4dn.4xlarge, g4dn.8xlarge, g4dn.metal, g4dn.xlarge
Variantsm8a.metal-24xl, m8azn.metal-24xl, m8g.metal-24xl, m8gd.metal-24xl, m8gn.metal-24xl
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 900 GB NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput150000 MBps14000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth150000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput18750 Mbps2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance720000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance720000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth150000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput18750 Mbps2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance200 Gigabit100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces2415
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesyes
EFA Max Interfaces11
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.38x

Regional Prices

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Geography
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m8gb.metal-24xl
g4dn.metal
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a8.3000
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a9.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a9.7800
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a9.8620
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a10.1740
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a10.3810
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a10.5620
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a10.5620
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a10.9480
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a12.0480
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a13.2980
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a8.6120
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a8.6870
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a8.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a9.1480
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a9.1540
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a9.1600
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a9.3890
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a9.5960
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a7.8240
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)6.98407.8240
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a7.8240
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