m4.xlarge vs m8i.xlarge

Instance Typem4.xlargem8i.xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
4 – Generation
xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory16 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed2.4 GHz3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.large, m4.xlargem8i.12xlarge, m8i.16xlarge, m8i.24xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8i.32xlarge, m8i.48xlarge, m8i.4xlarge, m8i.8xlarge, m8i.96xlarge, m8i.large, m8i.metal-48xl, m8i.metal-96xl, m8i.xlarge
Generationsm1.xlarge, m2.xlarge, m3.xlarge, m4.xlarge, m5.xlarge, m6i.xlarge, m7i.xlarge, m8i.xlargem6i.xlarge, m7i.xlarge, m8i.xlarge
Variantsm8a.xlarge, m8azn.xlarge, m8g.xlarge, m8gb.xlarge, m8gd.xlarge, m8gn.xlarge, m8i-flex.xlarge, m8ib.xlarge, m8id.xlarge, m8idb.xlarge, m8idn.xlarge, m8in.xlarge, m8ine.xlarge
SageMakerml.m4.xlarge
RDSdb.m4.xlargedb.m8i.xlarge
OpenSearchm4.xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units13
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput750 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth750 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput93.75 Mbps156.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance6000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth750 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput93.75 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.05x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m4.xlarge
m8i.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.21000.2227
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.25200.2536
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.25800.2602
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.25800.2646
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.31800.2646
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.2668
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.2668
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.2734
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.2778
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.2800
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.3374
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.22200.2227
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.22200.2249
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23200.2359
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.23400.2359
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.24000.2359
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.24600.2448
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.25000.2470
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.25000.2470
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.20000.2117
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.20000.2117
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.20000.2117
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