m8a.12xlarge vs m8azn.12xlarge

Accelerators
Instance Type	m8a.12xlarge	m8azn.12xlarge
Instance Family	General purpose	General purpose
Details	Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 8 – Generation a – AMD processor 12xlarge – Size	Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 8 – Generation a – AMD processor z – High performance n – Network and EBS optimized 12xlarge – Size
vCPUs	48	48
Memory	192 GiB	192 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor	AMD EPYC 9575F
Clock Speed	4.5 GHz	5 GHz
Threads Per Core	1	1
GPU	no	no
Inference Accelerator	no	no
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	m8a.12xlarge, m8a.16xlarge, m8a.24xlarge, m8a.2xlarge, m8a.48xlarge, m8a.4xlarge, m8a.8xlarge, m8a.large, m8a.medium, m8a.metal-24xl, m8a.metal-48xl, m8a.xlarge	m8azn.12xlarge, m8azn.24xlarge, m8azn.3xlarge, m8azn.6xlarge, m8azn.large, m8azn.medium, m8azn.metal-12xl, m8azn.metal-24xl, m8azn.xlarge
Generations	m5a.12xlarge, m6a.12xlarge, m7a.12xlarge, m8a.12xlarge
Variants	m8azn.12xlarge, m8g.12xlarge, m8gb.12xlarge, m8gd.12xlarge, m8gn.12xlarge, m8i-flex.12xlarge, m8i.12xlarge, m8id.12xlarge	m8a.12xlarge, m8g.12xlarge, m8gb.12xlarge, m8gd.12xlarge, m8gn.12xlarge, m8i-flex.12xlarge, m8i.12xlarge, m8id.12xlarge
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	no	no
Instance Storage	EBS only	EBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized	default	default
Encryption	supported	supported
NVMe	required	required
Dedicated Throughput	15000 MBps	30720 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth	15000 Mbps	30000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput	1875 Mbps	3750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance	60000 IOPS	120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance	60000 IOPS	120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth	15000 Mbps	30000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput	1875 Mbps	3750 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance	22500 Megabit	100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networking	yes	yes
Max Interfaces	12	16
Max Cards	1	1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	64	64
IPv6 Addresses per Interface	64	64
IPv6 Support	yes	yes
ENA Support	required	required
EFA Support	no	no
Encryption in Transit Support	yes	yes
ENA SRD Support	no	yes
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.73x

Regional Prices

Geography	Region	m8a.12xlarge	m8azn.12xlarge
Europe	Europe (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1)	n/a	5.9359
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	3.2558	6.4006
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	3.4992	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	3.7733	n/a
US	US East (Ohio) (us-east-2)	2.9213	n/a
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	2.9213	4.9550
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	2.9213	4.9550