m5a.8xlarge vs im4gn.8xlarge

Instance Typem5a.8xlargeim4gn.8xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
8xlarge – 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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5a.12xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5a.24xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5a.4xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5a.large, m5a.xlargeim4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge
Generationsm5a.8xlarge, m6a.8xlarge, m7a.8xlarge, m8a.8xlarge
Variantsm5.8xlarge, m5ad.8xlarge, m5d.8xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge, m5n.8xlarge
OpenSearchim4gn.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps19000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth4750 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput593.75 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit50 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.04x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m5a.8xlarge
im4gn.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.8890n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.37603.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.72803.4887
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.72803.4887
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.7440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.7440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.7920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.2080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.53603.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.53603.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.60003.3040
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.61603.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.61603.3767
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.61603.3767
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.66403.4141
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.69603.4700
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.37602.9103
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.37602.9103
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.9103
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