h1.16xlarge vs m8gd.16xlarge

Instance Typeh1.16xlargem8gd.16xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedGeneral purpose
DetailsAmazon EMR workloads, distributed file systems (HDFS, MapR-FS), network file systems, log/data processing apps (like Apache Kafka), and big data clusters.

h – HDD / hard disk throughput optimized
1 – Generation
16xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory256 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlargem8gd.12xlarge, m8gd.16xlarge, m8gd.24xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gd.48xlarge, m8gd.4xlarge, m8gd.8xlarge, m8gd.large, m8gd.medium, m8gd.metal-24xl, m8gd.metal-48xl, m8gd.xlarge
Generationsm6gd.16xlarge, m7gd.16xlarge, m8gd.16xlarge, m9gd.16xlarge
Variantsm8a.16xlarge, m8g.16xlarge, m8gb.16xlarge, m8gn.16xlarge, m8i-flex.16xlarge, m8i.16xlarge, m8ib.16xlarge, m8id.16xlarge, m8idb.16xlarge, m8idn.16xlarge, m8in.16xlarge
RDSdb.m8gd.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201
Instance Storage8 x 2000 HDD2 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput14000 MBps20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth14000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth14000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit30 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces815
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.10x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
h1.16xlarge
m8gd.16xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a2.4538
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.15203.6902
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a4.3437
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a4.4416
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a4.6048
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a4.6374
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a4.6374
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a4.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a4.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a4.7680
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a5.8784
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a3.8746
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a3.9142
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a3.9194
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a4.1152
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a4.1152
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a4.1152
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a4.2784
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a4.3110
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)3.74403.6902
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.74403.6902
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)3.7440n/a
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