g7e.8xlarge

Analysis

The g7e.8xlarge is a gpu instance instance in the g7e series with 32 vCPUs and 256 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 g7.8xlarge on Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) costs $4.09/hour, 22% less ($863 a month).

Running it in N. Virginia instead of London saves $2,838 a month per instance: $5.27/hour against $9.16/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: 100 Gigabit.

Compared with the previous generation, it costs 16% more than the g6e.8xlarge on AMD EPYC 7R13 ($540 more a month per instance), in exchange for the newer processor.

It is size 3 of 6 in the g7e series. Stepping up to the g7e.12xlarge gives 48 vCPUs and 512 GiB for $2,203 more a month. Dropping to the g7e.4xlarge saves $927 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.