m8gn.8xlarge vs z1d.6xlarge

Instance Typem8gn.8xlargez1d.6xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
8xlarge – 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
6xlarge – Size
vCPUs3224
Memory128 GiB192 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8151
Clock Speed2.8 GHz4 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8gn.12xlarge, m8gn.16xlarge, m8gn.24xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8gn.48xlarge, m8gn.4xlarge, m8gn.8xlarge, m8gn.large, m8gn.medium, m8gn.metal-24xl, m8gn.metal-48xl, m8gn.xlargez1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlarge
Variantsm8a.8xlarge, m8g.8xlarge, m8gb.8xlarge, m8gd.8xlarge, m8i-flex.8xlarge, m8i.8xlarge, m8ib.8xlarge, m8id.8xlarge, m8idb.8xlarge, m8idn.8xlarge, m8in.8xlarge, m8ine.8xlarge
RDSdb.z1d.6xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units116
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput20000 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth20000 Mbps9500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2500 Mbps1187.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth20000 Mbps9500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2500 Mbps1187.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance100 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces108
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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Geography
Region
m8gn.8xlarge
z1d.6xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)2.6019n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a2.3520
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a2.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a2.5320
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a2.6360
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a2.7000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a2.7000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a2.7120
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.7120
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.7240
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a2.2320
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.32802.2320
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.32802.2320
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