hpc7g.8xlarge vs m5ad.8xlarge

Instance Typehpc7g.8xlargem5ad.8xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedGeneral purpose
DetailsHigh-performance computing (HPC), computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, seismic analysis, reservoir simulation, risk analysis, and weather modeling.

hpc – High performance computing (HPC) / high disk throughput
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
8xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
d – Instance store volume
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571
Clock Speed2.6 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizeshpc7g.16xlarge, hpc7g.4xlarge, hpc7g.8xlargem5ad.12xlarge, m5ad.16xlarge, m5ad.24xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5ad.4xlarge, m5ad.8xlarge, m5ad.large, m5ad.xlarge
Variantsm5.8xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5d.8xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge, m5n.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 600 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput87 MBps3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth87 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput10.875 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance500 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance11000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2085 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput260.625 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance200 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces48
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesno
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.00x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
hpc7g.8xlarge
m5ad.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a1.0740
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)1.8059n/a
USGovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1)2.0262n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.11171.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.0800
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.1440
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a1.8400
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a1.8400
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a1.9200
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a1.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a1.9520
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a2.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.0320
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.0640
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a1.6480
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.68321.6480
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