h1.8xlarge vs m8azn.6xlarge

Instance Typeh1.8xlargem8azn.6xlarge
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
8xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
z – High performance
n – Network and EBS optimized
6xlarge – Size
vCPUs3224
Memory128 GiB96 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AMD EPYC 9575F
Clock Speed2.3 GHz5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlargem8azn.12xlarge, m8azn.24xlarge, m8azn.3xlarge, m8azn.6xlarge, m8azn.large, m8azn.medium, m8azn.metal-12xl, m8azn.metal-24xl, m8azn.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance Storage4 x 2000 HDDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps15360 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7000 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput875 Mbps1875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7000 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput875 Mbps1875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit50 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3040
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3040
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.42x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
h1.8xlarge
m8azn.6xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.07602.7616
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a2.9680
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a3.2003
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.87202.4775
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.87202.4775
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.87202.4775
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