h1.2xlarge vs m8gd.2xlarge

Instance Typeh1.2xlargem8gd.2xlarge
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
2xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB32 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.2xlarge, m7gd.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m9gd.2xlarge
Variantsm8a.2xlarge, m8g.2xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8i-flex.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8ib.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge, m8idb.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge, m8ine.2xlarge
RDSdb.m8gd.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance Storage1 x 2000 HDD1 x 475 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1750 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1750 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput218.75 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 15 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.10x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
h1.2xlarge
m8gd.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a0.3067
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.51900.4613
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.5430
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.5552
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.5756
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.5797
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.5797
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.7348
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.4843
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.4893
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.4899
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.5144
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.5144
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.5144
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.5348
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.5389
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.46800.4613
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.46800.4613
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.4680n/a
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