m6g.medium vs m8g.medium

Instance Typem6g.mediumm8g.medium
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
medium – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
medium – Size
vCPUs11
Memory4 GiB4 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm6g.12xlarge, m6g.16xlarge, m6g.2xlarge, m6g.4xlarge, m6g.8xlarge, m6g.large, m6g.medium, m6g.metal, m6g.xlargem8g.12xlarge, m8g.16xlarge, m8g.24xlarge, m8g.2xlarge, m8g.48xlarge, m8g.4xlarge, m8g.8xlarge, m8g.large, m8g.medium, m8g.metal-24xl, m8g.metal-48xl, m8g.xlarge
Generationsm6g.medium, m7g.medium, m8g.medium, m9g.mediumm6g.medium, m7g.medium, m8g.medium, m9g.medium
Variantsm6gd.mediumm8a.medium, m8azn.medium, m8gb.medium, m8gd.medium, m8gn.medium
SageMakerml.m6g.mediumml.m8g.medium
OpenSearchm8g.medium.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput300 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth315 Mbps315 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput39.375 Mbps39.375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance2500 IOPS2500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 12.5 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces22
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface44
IPv6 Addresses per Interface44
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.17x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m6g.medium
m8g.medium
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.02530.0321
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.02530.0321
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.03850.0449
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.04300.0500
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.04440.0519
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.04460.0522
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.04480.0524
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.04480.0524
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.04500.0524
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.04520.0538
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.04600.0550
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.04700.0552
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.04700.0561
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.03850.0449
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.04730.0561
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.04800.0561
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.04800.0561
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.04800.0565
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.04800.0566
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.04840.0580
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.04840.0580
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.04950.0591
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.04960.0594
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.05040.0617
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.04040.0471
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.05060.0617
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.05080.0715
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.0530n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.0612n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.04080.0477
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.04080.0477
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.04100.0477
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.04280.0500
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.04280.0500
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.04300.0500
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.03850.0449
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