m8azn.6xlarge vs i3.8xlarge

Instance Typem8azn.6xlargei3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall 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
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
3 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs2432
Memory96 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9575FIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed5 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8azn.12xlarge, m8azn.24xlarge, m8azn.3xlarge, m8azn.6xlarge, m8azn.large, m8azn.medium, m8azn.metal-12xl, m8azn.metal-24xl, m8azn.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsi2.8xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarge
OpenSearchi3.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughput15360 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth15000 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1875 Mbps875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance60000 IOPS32500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS32500 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth15000 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1875 Mbps875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance50 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface4030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface4030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.08x

Regional Prices

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m8azn.6xlarge
i3.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.76162.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.9280
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.9280
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.9280
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.9760
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.96802.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a3.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a3.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a3.0270
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a3.0270
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a3.2740
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a3.2800
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a3.2960
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a3.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.20032.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a2.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a2.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a2.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a2.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.8900
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.8960
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.47752.4960
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.47752.4960
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.47752.4960
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