m6g.large

Analysis

The m6g.large is a general purpose instance in the m6g series with 2 vCPUs and 8 GiB of memory on AWS Graviton2, which makes it balanced at 4 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Running it in Mumbai instead of São Paulo saves $52.41 a month per instance: $0.0506/hour against $0.1224/hour, a 142% spread.

At $0.0770/hour on demand in US East (N. Virginia), about $56.21 a month, the m6g.large is one of the cheaper ways to buy general purpose capacity: only 9% of the 354 current general purpose types cost less per vCPU-hour than its $0.0385.

It is the cheapest of the 5 processor variants AWS sells at this size and generation. The m6id.large on Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake) costs 54% more, and the m6a.large, the m6gd.large and the m6i.large also sit above it.

The newer m7g.large on AWS Graviton3 is 6.0% dearer at $0.0816/hour.

Reserving it for a year with no upfront payment cuts the Linux rate to $0.0483/hour, which beats on demand once it runs more than 63% of the time; three years brings it to $0.0335/hour, 56% below on demand.

It is size 2 of 8 in the m6g series. Stepping up to the m6g.xlarge gives 4 vCPUs and 16 GiB for $56.21 more a month. Dropping to the m6g.medium saves $28.11 a month.