g7e.48xlarge

Analysis

The g7e.48xlarge is a gpu instance instance in the g7e series with 192 vCPUs and 2048 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids) (up to 3.2 GHz), which makes it very memory-heavy at 10.67 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Running it in N. Virginia instead of London saves $17,858 a month per instance: $33.14/hour against $57.61/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.

Within the same generation and size, the g7.48xlarge on Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) costs $28.51/hour, 14% less ($3,381 a month).

It carries 8 GPUs with 768 GB of GPU memory, so most of the price is the accelerator rather than the CPUs. It has local instance storage (4 x 3800 GB NVMe SSD), which is fast but lost when the instance stops. Network: 1600 Gigabit.

It is the largest of the 6 g7e sizes. Dropping to the g7e.24xlarge saves $12,098 a month. Unit price is not flat across the series ($0.1646 to $0.4204 per vCPU-hour), so the size changes the rate you pay.

Compared with the previous generation, it costs 10% more than the g6e.48xlarge on AMD EPYC 7R13 ($2,200 more a month per instance), in exchange for the newer processor.