m8a.4xlarge vs i4g.4xlarge
| m8a.4xlarge | i4g.4xlarge |
| General purpose | Storage optimized |
| Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 8 – Generation a – AMD processor 4xlarge – 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 4 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor 4xlarge – Size |
| 16 | 16 |
| 64 GiB | 128 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor | AWS Graviton2 Processor |
| 4.5 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 1 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| m8a.12xlarge, m8a.16xlarge, m8a.24xlarge, m8a.2xlarge, m8a.48xlarge, m8a.4xlarge, m8a.8xlarge, m8a.large, m8a.medium, m8a.metal-24xl, m8a.metal-48xl, m8a.xlarge | i4g.16xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge, i4g.large, i4g.xlarge |
| m5a.4xlarge, m6a.4xlarge, m7a.4xlarge, m8a.4xlarge | i4g.4xlarge, i8g.4xlarge |
| m8g.4xlarge, m8gb.4xlarge, m8gd.4xlarge, m8gn.4xlarge, m8i-flex.4xlarge, m8i.4xlarge, m8ib.4xlarge, m8id.4xlarge, m8idb.4xlarge, m8idn.4xlarge, m8in.4xlarge, m8ine.4xlarge | i4i.4xlarge |
| db.m8a.4xlarge | |
| i4g.4xlarge.search | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 3750 SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 10000 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 5000 Mbps | 5000 Mbps |
| 625 Mbps | 625 Mbps |
| 20000 IOPS | 20000 IOPS |
| 40000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 10000 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 1250 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 15000 Megabit | Up to 25 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 40 | 30 |
| 40 | 30 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | yes |
| 1.00x | 1.30x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | m8a.4xlarge | i4g.4xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 1.0853 | 1.3616 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 1.0853 | 1.3616 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 1.1664 | 1.4810 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 1.2273 | 1.4810 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 1.2578 | 1.9728 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.9738 | 1.2355 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.9738 | 1.2355 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.9738 | 1.2355 |