m8a.4xlarge vs g6.4xlarge
| m8a.4xlarge | g6.4xlarge |
| General purpose | GPU instance |
| Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 8 – Generation a – AMD processor 4xlarge – Size | 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) 6 – Generation 4xlarge – Size |
| 16 | 16 |
| 64 GiB | 64 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor | AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor |
| 4.5 GHz | 3.4 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | yes |
| L4 | |
| NVIDIA | |
| 1 | |
| 22.35 GiB | |
| 22.35 GiB | |
| no | no |
| 24 GiB | |
| no | no |
| m8a.12xlarge, m8a.16xlarge, m8a.24xlarge, m8a.2xlarge, m8a.48xlarge, m8a.4xlarge, m8a.8xlarge, m8a.large, m8a.medium, m8a.metal-24xl, m8a.metal-48xl, m8a.xlarge | g6.12xlarge, g6.16xlarge, g6.24xlarge, g6.2xlarge, g6.48xlarge, g6.4xlarge, g6.8xlarge, g6.xlarge |
| m5a.4xlarge, m6a.4xlarge, m7a.4xlarge, m8a.4xlarge | g3.4xlarge, g5.4xlarge, g6.4xlarge |
| m8g.4xlarge, m8gb.4xlarge, m8gd.4xlarge, m8gn.4xlarge, m8i-flex.4xlarge, m8i.4xlarge, m8ib.4xlarge, m8id.4xlarge, m8idb.4xlarge, m8idn.4xlarge, m8in.4xlarge, m8ine.4xlarge | g6e.4xlarge, g6f.4xlarge |
| ml.g6.4xlarge | |
| db.m8a.4xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| EBS only | 1 x 600 GB NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 10000 MBps | 8000 MBps |
| 5000 Mbps | 8000 Mbps |
| 625 Mbps | 1000 Mbps |
| 20000 IOPS | 32000 IOPS |
| 40000 IOPS | 32000 IOPS |
| 10000 Mbps | 8000 Mbps |
| 1250 Mbps | 1000 Mbps |
| Up to 15000 Megabit | Up to 25 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 40 | 30 |
| 40 | 30 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.48x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | m8a.4xlarge | g6.4xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 1.0853 | 1.3942 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 1.6678 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 1.6678 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 1.6797 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 1.6797 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 1.7204 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 1.7839 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 1.9190 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 2.2492 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 1.0853 | 1.4034 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 1.1664 | 1.4692 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 1.2273 | 1.5889 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 1.2578 | 1.5889 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 1.6248 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 1.6270 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 1.6547 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 1.6668 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.9738 | 1.3232 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.9738 | 1.3232 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.9738 | 1.3232 |