m7gd.8xlarge vs i2.8xlarge

Instance Typem7gd.8xlargei2.8xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
8xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
2 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.6 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm7gd.12xlarge, m7gd.16xlarge, m7gd.2xlarge, m7gd.4xlarge, m7gd.8xlarge, m7gd.large, m7gd.medium, m7gd.metal, m7gd.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsm6gd.8xlarge, m7gd.8xlarge, m8gd.8xlarge, m9gd.8xlargei2.8xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarge
Variantsm7a.8xlarge, m7g.8xlarge, m7i-flex.8xlarge, m7i.8xlarge
SageMakerml.m7gd.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units104
Instance Storage1 x 1900 NVMe SSD8 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps1500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance15 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.92x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m7gd.8xlarge
i2.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.1360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.70867.5020
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.0110n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.0563n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.0957n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.1018n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.1319n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.1470n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.2075n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.2544n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.7216n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.79397.5020
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.81227.7330
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.81228.0040
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.81448.0040
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.90518.1020
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.90518.1400
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.98698.1400
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.99588.1840
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.70866.8200
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.70866.8200
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a6.8200
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