m7g.8xlarge vs im4gn.8xlarge

Instance Typem7g.8xlargeim4gn.8xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton 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 Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.6 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm7g.12xlarge, m7g.16xlarge, m7g.2xlarge, m7g.4xlarge, m7g.8xlarge, m7g.large, m7g.medium, m7g.metal, m7g.xlargeim4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge
Generationsm6g.8xlarge, m7g.8xlarge, m8g.8xlarge, m9g.8xlarge
Variantsm7a.8xlarge, m7gd.8xlarge, m7i-flex.8xlarge, m7i.8xlarge
SageMakerml.m7g.8xlarge
RDSdb.m7g.8xlarge
OpenSearchm7g.8xlarge.searchim4gn.8xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m7g.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps19000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance15 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 Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.13x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m7g.8xlarge
im4gn.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.9331n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.9331n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.30563.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.50983.4887
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.51783.4887
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.5232n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.5232n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.5280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.5642n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)1.6007n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)1.6048n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)1.6320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)1.6320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.30563.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)1.6320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)1.6320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)1.6448n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)1.6454n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)1.6864n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)1.6864n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)1.7136n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)1.7204n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)1.7274n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)1.7952n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.37093.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)1.7952n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)2.0808n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.38723.3040
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.38723.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.38723.3767
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.45443.3767
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.45523.4141
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.45543.4700
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a2.9103
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.30562.9103
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.9103
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