g7e.2xlarge

Analysis

The g7e.2xlarge is a gpu instance instance in the g7e series with 8 vCPUs and 64 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids) (up to 3.2 GHz), which makes it memory-heavy at 8 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Within the same generation and size, the g7.2xlarge on Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) costs $2.52/hour, 25% less ($615 a month).

Compared with the previous generation, it costs 50% more than the g6e.2xlarge on AMD EPYC 7R13 ($818 more a month per instance), in exchange for the newer processor.

Running it in N. Virginia instead of London saves $1,812 a month per instance: $3.36/hour against $5.85/hour, a 74% spread. It is not offered in Canada Central, São Paulo, Ireland, Singapore and Sydney, so plan around that if you need a presence there.

It carries 1 GPU with 96 GB of GPU memory, so most of the price is the accelerator rather than the CPUs. It has local instance storage (1 x 1900 GB NVMe SSD), which is fast but lost when the instance stops. Network: 50 Gigabit.

Per vCPU it is one of the dearer gpu instance types: 94% of the 78 current types in the family cost less than its $0.4204 per vCPU-hour. The premium mostly pays for the accelerators. On demand it is $3.36/hour in US East (N. Virginia), or $2,455 for a 730-hour month.