m6gd.16xlarge vs im4gn.16xlarge

Instance Typem6gd.16xlargeim4gn.16xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
16xlarge – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

im – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to four ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory256 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm6gd.12xlarge, m6gd.16xlarge, m6gd.2xlarge, m6gd.4xlarge, m6gd.8xlarge, m6gd.large, m6gd.medium, m6gd.metal, m6gd.xlargeim4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge
Generationsm6gd.16xlarge, m7gd.16xlarge, m8gd.16xlarge, m9gd.16xlarge
Variantsm6a.16xlarge, m6g.16xlarge, m6i.16xlarge, m6id.16xlarge, m6idn.16xlarge, m6in.16xlarge
SageMakerml.m6gd.16xlarge
RDSdb.m6gd.16xlarge
OpenSearchim4gn.16xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage2 x 1900 NVMe SSD4 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput18000 MBps38000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth19000 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2375 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth19000 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2375 Mbps5000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.93x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m6gd.16xlarge
im4gn.16xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)1.9328n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.9328n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.89286.4176
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.22566.9773
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.35366.9773
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.3696n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.3792n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.3792n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)3.3869n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)3.3920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)3.4880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)3.5456n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)3.5482n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.89286.4177
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.5584n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.6160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.6160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.6480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.6480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.6608n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.6608n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)3.7376n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)3.7440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)3.8304n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.03746.4177
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)3.8368n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)3.8400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)3.9680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)4.6080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.07206.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.07336.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.07336.7535
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.22566.7535
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.22566.8281
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.22566.9400
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a5.8207
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.89285.8207
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a5.8207
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