h1.2xlarge vs m9gd.2xlarge

Accelerators
Instance Type	h1.2xlarge	m9gd.2xlarge
Instance Family	Storage optimized	General purpose
Details	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	Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 9 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor d – Instance store volume 2xlarge – Size
vCPUs	8	8
Memory	32 GiB	32 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	arm64
Processor	Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)	AWS Graviton5 Processor
Clock Speed	2.3 GHz	3.3 GHz
Threads Per Core	2	1
GPU	no	no
Inference Accelerator	no	no
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	h1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlarge	m9gd.12xlarge, m9gd.16xlarge, m9gd.24xlarge, m9gd.2xlarge, m9gd.48xlarge, m9gd.4xlarge, m9gd.8xlarge, m9gd.large, m9gd.medium, m9gd.metal-48xl, m9gd.xlarge
Generations		m6gd.2xlarge, m7gd.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m9gd.2xlarge
Variants		m9g.2xlarge
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	no	yes
EC2 Compute Units	31
Instance Storage	1 x 2000 HDD	1 x 474 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized	default	default
Encryption	supported	supported
NVMe	unsupported	required
Dedicated Throughput	1750 MBps	up to 12000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth	1750 Mbps	3000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput	218.75 Mbps	375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance	12000 IOPS	12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance	12000 IOPS	48000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth	1750 Mbps	12000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput	218.75 Mbps	1500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance	Up to 10 Gigabit	Up to 17 Gigabit
Enhanced Networking	yes	yes
Max Interfaces	4	4
Max Cards	1	1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	15	30
IPv6 Addresses per Interface	15	30
IPv6 Support	yes	yes
ENA Support	supported	required
EFA Support	no	no
Encryption in Transit Support	no	yes
ENA SRD Support	no	no
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.10x

Regional Prices

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Shared Tenancy

On Demand

Geography	Region	h1.2xlarge	m9gd.2xlarge
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	0.5190	0.6052
US	US East (Ohio) (us-east-2)	0.4680	0.5028
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	0.4680	0.5028
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	0.4680	0.5028

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