m8gn.metal-24xl vs m5dn.metal

Instance Typem8gn.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
n – Network and EBS optimized
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
Sizesm8gn.12xlarge, m8gn.16xlarge, m8gn.24xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8gn.48xlarge, m8gn.4xlarge, m8gn.8xlarge, m8gn.large, m8gn.medium, m8gn.metal-24xl, m8gn.metal-48xl, m8gn.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, m8gd.metal-24xlm5.metal, m5d.metal, m5n.metal, m5zn.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput60000 MBps14000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth60000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput7500 Mbps2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance240000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance240000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth60000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput7500 Mbps2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance300 Gigabit100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces2415
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 Diff1.00x1.07x

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m8gn.metal-24xl
m5dn.metal
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a7.2960
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a7.7760
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a8.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a8.2080
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a8.2080
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a8.4000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a6.5280
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)6.98406.5280
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a6.5280
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