m8in.16xlarge vs im4gn.16xlarge
| m8in.16xlarge | im4gn.16xlarge |
| General purpose | Storage optimized |
| Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 8 – Generation i – Intel processor n – Network and EBS optimized 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 |
| 64 | 64 |
| 256 GiB | 256 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) | AWS Graviton2 Processor |
| 3.9 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 2 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| m8in.12xlarge, m8in.16xlarge, m8in.24xlarge, m8in.2xlarge, m8in.32xlarge, m8in.48xlarge, m8in.4xlarge, m8in.8xlarge, m8in.96xlarge, m8in.large, m8in.xlarge | im4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge |
| m6in.16xlarge, m8in.16xlarge | |
| m8a.16xlarge, m8g.16xlarge, m8gb.16xlarge, m8gd.16xlarge, m8gn.16xlarge, m8i-flex.16xlarge, m8i.16xlarge, m8ib.16xlarge, m8id.16xlarge | |
| im4gn.16xlarge.search | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| EBS only | 4 x 7500 SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| 20000 MBps | 38000 MBps |
| 20000 Mbps | 40000 Mbps |
| 2500 Mbps | 5000 Mbps |
| 80000 IOPS | 160000 IOPS |
| 80000 IOPS | 160000 IOPS |
| 20000 Mbps | 40000 Mbps |
| 2500 Mbps | 5000 Mbps |
| 100 Gigabit | 100 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 16 | 15 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 64 | 50 |
| 64 | 50 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | yes |
| 1 | |
| yes | yes |
| yes | yes |
| 1.00x | 1.17x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | m8in.16xlarge | im4gn.16xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | Europe (Spain) (eu-south-2) | 5.9590 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 6.4176 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 6.9773 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 6.9773 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 6.4177 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 6.4177 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 6.6080 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 6.7520 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 6.7535 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 6.7535 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 6.8281 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 6.9400 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | n/a | 5.8207 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 5.3466 | 5.8207 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 5.3466 | 5.8207 |