m8gd.metal-24xl vs m5dn.metal

Instance Typem8gd.metal-24xlm5dn.metal
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
metal-24xl – Bare metal
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs9696
Memory384 GiB384 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8gd.12xlarge, m8gd.16xlarge, m8gd.24xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gd.48xlarge, m8gd.4xlarge, m8gd.8xlarge, m8gd.large, m8gd.medium, m8gd.metal-24xl, m8gd.metal-48xl, m8gd.xlargem5dn.12xlarge, m5dn.16xlarge, m5dn.24xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5dn.4xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge, m5dn.large, m5dn.metal, m5dn.xlarge
Generationsm5dn.metal, m6idn.metal
Variantsm8a.metal-24xl, m8azn.metal-24xl, m8g.metal-24xl, m8gb.metal-24xl, m8gn.metal-24xlm5.metal, m5d.metal, m5n.metal, m5zn.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage3 x 1900 NVMe SSD4 x 900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput30000 MBps14000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth30000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput3750 Mbps2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance120000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance120000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth30000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput3750 Mbps2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance40 Gigabit100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesyes
EFA Max Interfaces11
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.18x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m8gd.metal-24xl
m5dn.metal
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)3.6806n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)5.53547.2960
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)6.5155n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)6.6624n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)6.9072n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)6.9562n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)6.9562n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)7.0080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)7.0080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)7.1520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)8.8176n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)5.81187.7760
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)5.87148.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)5.87908.2080
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)6.17288.2080
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)6.17288.4000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)6.1728n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)6.4176n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)6.4666n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)5.53546.5280
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)5.53546.5280
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a6.5280
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