m7i.8xlarge vs m5n.8xlarge

Instance Typem7i.8xlargem5n.8xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
8xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
n – Network and EBS optimized
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed3.2 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm7i.12xlarge, m7i.16xlarge, m7i.24xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m7i.48xlarge, m7i.4xlarge, m7i.8xlarge, m7i.large, m7i.metal-24xl, m7i.metal-48xl, m7i.xlargem5n.12xlarge, m5n.16xlarge, m5n.24xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5n.4xlarge, m5n.8xlarge, m5n.large, m5n.metal, m5n.xlarge
Generationsm6i.8xlarge, m7i.8xlarge, m8i.8xlargem5n.8xlarge, m6in.8xlarge, m8in.8xlarge
Variantsm7a.8xlarge, m7g.8xlarge, m7gd.8xlarge, m7i-flex.8xlargem5.8xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5ad.8xlarge, m5d.8xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge
SageMakerml.m7i.8xlarge
RDSdb.m7i.8xlarge
OpenSearchm7i.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps5000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps6800 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps850 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps6800 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps850 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12500 Megabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.14x

Regional Prices

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m7i.8xlarge
m5n.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.69342.1280
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.8648n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.8749n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.8816n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.8816n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.8816n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.8875n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)1.9320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)1.9774n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)1.9824n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.0160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.69682.2560
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)2.0160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)2.0160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)2.0160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)2.0328n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)2.0328n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)2.0832n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)2.0832n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)2.1168n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)2.1251n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)2.1336n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.69682.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)2.2176n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)2.5704n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.71362.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.71362.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.71362.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.7976n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.7976n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.7976n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.61281.9040
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.61281.9040
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.61281.9040
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