m8g.2xlarge vs h1.2xlarge

Instance Typem8g.2xlargeh1.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
2xlarge – Size
Amazon 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
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8g.12xlarge, m8g.16xlarge, m8g.24xlarge, m8g.2xlarge, m8g.48xlarge, m8g.4xlarge, m8g.8xlarge, m8g.large, m8g.medium, m8g.metal-24xl, m8g.metal-48xl, m8g.xlargeh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlarge
Generationsm6g.2xlarge, m7g.2xlarge, m8g.2xlarge, m9g.2xlarge
Variantsm8a.2xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8i-flex.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8ib.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge, m8idb.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge, m8ine.2xlarge
SageMakerml.m8g.2xlarge
RDSdb.m8g.2xlarge
OpenSearchm8g.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m8g.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBps1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps218.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps218.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 15 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.15x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m8g.2xlarge
h1.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.2566n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2566n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.35900.5190
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.4002n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.4152n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.4174n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.4189n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.4189n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.4189n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.4302n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.4402n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.4414n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.4488n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.3590n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.4488n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.4488n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.4488n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.4523n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.4525n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.4638n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.4638n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.4731n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.4750n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.4937n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.3770n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.4937n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.5722n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.3815n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.3815n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.3815n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.3999n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.4002n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.4002n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.4680
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.35900.4680
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.4680
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