m8azn.3xlarge vs x1e.4xlarge

Instance Typem8azn.3xlargex1e.4xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
z – High performance
n – Network and EBS optimized
3xlarge – Size
In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
1 – Generation
e – Extra storage or memory
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1216
Memory48 GiB488 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9575FHigh Frequency Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed5 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8azn.12xlarge, m8azn.24xlarge, m8azn.3xlarge, m8azn.6xlarge, m8azn.large, m8azn.medium, m8azn.metal-12xl, m8azn.metal-24xl, m8azn.xlargex1e.16xlarge, x1e.2xlarge, x1e.32xlarge, x1e.4xlarge, x1e.8xlarge, x1e.xlarge
RDSdb.x1e.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units47
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 480 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 15360 MBps1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7500 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput937.5 Mbps218.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth15000 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1875 Mbps218.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 50 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces84
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface4015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface4015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.17x

Regional Prices

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m8azn.3xlarge
x1e.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.38083.4400
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a4.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a4.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a4.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a6.5020
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.48403.6670
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.60014.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a4.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a4.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a4.6680
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a4.7600
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a4.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a4.8360
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.23883.3360
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.23883.3360
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.23883.3360
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