m8ib.large vs x2gd.large

Accelerators
Instance Type	m8ib.large	x2gd.large
Instance Family	General purpose	Memory optimized
Details	Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 8 – Generation i – Intel processor b – EBS optimized large – 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 2 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor d – Instance store volume large – Size
vCPUs	2	2
Memory	8 GiB	32 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	arm64
Processor	Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)	AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed	3.9 GHz	2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core	2	1
GPU	no	no
Inference Accelerator	no	no
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	m8ib.12xlarge, m8ib.16xlarge, m8ib.24xlarge, m8ib.2xlarge, m8ib.32xlarge, m8ib.48xlarge, m8ib.4xlarge, m8ib.8xlarge, m8ib.96xlarge, m8ib.large, m8ib.metal-48xl, m8ib.metal-96xl, m8ib.xlarge	x2gd.12xlarge, x2gd.16xlarge, x2gd.2xlarge, x2gd.4xlarge, x2gd.8xlarge, x2gd.large, x2gd.medium, x2gd.metal, x2gd.xlarge
Variants	m8a.large, m8azn.large, m8g.large, m8gb.large, m8gd.large, m8gn.large, m8i-flex.large, m8i.large, m8id.large, m8idb.large, m8idn.large, m8in.large, m8ine.large
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	yes	yes
Instance Storage	EBS only	1 x 118 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized	default	default
Encryption	supported	supported
NVMe	required	required
Dedicated Throughput	up to 25000 MBps	up to 4750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth	1563 Mbps	630 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput	195.375 Mbps	78.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance	7500 IOPS	3600 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance	120000 IOPS	20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth	25000 Mbps	4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput	3125 Mbps	593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance	Up to 16.66 Gigabit	Up to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networking	yes	yes
Max Interfaces	4	3
Max Cards	1	1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	20	10
IPv6 Addresses per Interface	20	10
IPv6 Support	yes	yes
ENA Support	required	required
EFA Support	no	no
Encryption in Transit Support	yes	no
ENA SRD Support	no	no
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.01x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)

Per Hour

Linux

Shared Tenancy

On Demand

Geography	Region	m8ib.large	x2gd.large
Europe	Europe (Spain) (eu-south-2)	0.1862	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	n/a	0.2000
US	US East (Ohio) (us-east-2)	n/a	0.1670
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	0.1671	0.1670
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	0.1671	0.1670