g6e.12xlarge

Analysis

The g6e.12xlarge is a gpu instance instance in the g6e series with 48 vCPUs and 384 GiB of memory on AMD EPYC 7R13 (up to 2.6 GHz), which makes it memory-heavy at 8 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Within the same generation and size, the g6.12xlarge on AMD EPYC 7R13 costs $4.60/hour, 56% less ($4,300 a month).

Running it in N. Virginia instead of Tokyo saves $3,449 a month per instance: $10.49/hour against $15.22/hour, a 45% spread. It is not offered in Canada Central, São Paulo, Ireland, London, Singapore and Sydney, so plan around that if you need a presence there.

The newer g7e.12xlarge on Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids) is 21% cheaper at $8.29/hour, which makes the g6e.12xlarge hard to justify for new deployments.

It carries 4 GPUs with 192 GB of GPU memory, so most of the price is the accelerator rather than the CPUs. It has local instance storage (2 x 1900 GB NVMe SSD), which is fast but lost when the instance stops. Network: 100 Gigabit.

It is size 5 of 8 in the g6e series. Stepping up to the g6e.16xlarge gives 64 vCPUs and 512 GiB for $-2128.27850 more a month. Dropping to the g6e.8xlarge saves $4,354 a month. Unit price is not flat across the series ($0.1184 to $0.4652 per vCPU-hour), so the size changes the rate you pay.