m5ad.2xlarge vs x8i.2xlarge
| m5ad.2xlarge | x8i.2xlarge |
| General purpose | Memory optimized |
| Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 5 – Generation a – AMD processor d – Instance store volume 2xlarge – Size | In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps. x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive 8 – Generation i – Intel processor 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 32 GiB | 128 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC 7571 | Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) |
| 2.2 GHz | 3.9 GHz |
| 2 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| m5ad.12xlarge, m5ad.16xlarge, m5ad.24xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5ad.4xlarge, m5ad.8xlarge, m5ad.large, m5ad.xlarge | x8i.12xlarge, x8i.16xlarge, x8i.24xlarge, x8i.2xlarge, x8i.32xlarge, x8i.48xlarge, x8i.4xlarge, x8i.64xlarge, x8i.8xlarge, x8i.96xlarge, x8i.large, x8i.metal-48xl, x8i.metal-96xl, x8i.xlarge |
| m5.2xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge | x8g.2xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| 1 x 300 NVMe SSD | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 2120 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 1580 Mbps | 2500 Mbps |
| 197.5 Mbps | 312.5 Mbps |
| 8333 IOPS | 12000 IOPS |
| 16000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 2880 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 360 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 15000 Megabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 30 |
| 15 | 30 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 2.07x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | m5ad.2xlarge | x8i.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.2680 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.4120 | 0.9031 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.5200 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.5240 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.5360 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.6600 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4600 | 0.9982 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.4600 | 1.0504 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.4800 | 1.1029 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.4840 | 1.2255 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.4880 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.5000 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.5080 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.5160 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.4120 | 0.8753 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4120 | 0.8753 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.8753 |