hpc8a.96xlarge vs m8i.48xlarge

Instance Typehpc8a.96xlargem8i.48xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral 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
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
96xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
48xlarge – Size
vCPUs192192
Memory768 GiB768 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed4.5 GHz3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizeshpc8a.96xlargem8i.12xlarge, m8i.16xlarge, m8i.24xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8i.32xlarge, m8i.48xlarge, m8i.4xlarge, m8i.8xlarge, m8i.96xlarge, m8i.large, m8i.metal-48xl, m8i.metal-96xl, m8i.xlarge
Generationshpc7a.96xlarge, hpc8a.96xlargem7i.48xlarge, m8i.48xlarge
Variantsm8a.48xlarge, m8g.48xlarge, m8gb.48xlarge, m8gd.48xlarge, m8gn.48xlarge, m8ib.48xlarge, m8id.48xlarge, m8idb.48xlarge, m8idn.48xlarge, m8in.48xlarge
RDSdb.m8i.48xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput87 MBps60000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth87 Mbps60000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput10.875 Mbps7500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance500 IOPS240000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance11000 IOPS240000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2085 Mbps60000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput260.625 Mbps7500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance300 Gigabit75000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces424
Max Cards21
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5064
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5064
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesyes
EFA Max Interfaces21
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.33x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
hpc8a.96xlarge
m8i.48xlarge
EuropeEurope (Stockholm) (eu-north-1)8.4977n/a
USGovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1)9.5341n/a
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USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)7.920010.1606
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USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a10.1606
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