m8gb.4xlarge vs z1d.3xlarge

Instance Typem8gb.4xlargez1d.3xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
4xlarge – Size
High memory and compute applications; suitable for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and certain relational database workloads.

z – Zippy / Compute and memory optimized
1 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
3xlarge – Size
vCPUs1612
Memory64 GiB96 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8151
Clock Speed2.8 GHz4 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8gb.12xlarge, m8gb.16xlarge, m8gb.24xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gb.48xlarge, m8gb.4xlarge, m8gb.8xlarge, m8gb.large, m8gb.medium, m8gb.metal-24xl, m8gb.metal-48xl, m8gb.xlargez1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlarge
Variantsm8a.4xlarge, m8g.4xlarge, m8gd.4xlarge, m8gn.4xlarge, m8i-flex.4xlarge, m8i.4xlarge, m8ib.4xlarge, m8id.4xlarge, m8idb.4xlarge, m8idn.4xlarge, m8in.4xlarge, m8ine.4xlarge
RDSdb.z1d.3xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units64
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 450 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput25000 MBps3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth25000 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput3125 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance120000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance120000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth25000 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput3125 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance33.333 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.04x

Regional Prices

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Region
m8gb.4xlarge
z1d.3xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)1.3010n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a1.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a1.2480
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a1.2660
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a1.3180
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a1.3500
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a1.3500
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a1.3560
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a1.3560
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.3620
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a1.1160
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.16401.1160
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.16401.1160
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