m6id.large

Analysis

The m6id.large is a general purpose instance in the m6id series with 2 vCPUs and 8 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake) (up to 3.5 GHz), which makes it balanced at 4 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Within the same generation and size, the m6g.large on AWS Graviton2 costs $0.0770/hour, 35% less ($30.40 a month), though switching means rebuilding software for arm64. The other variants are the m6a.large at $0.0864, the m6gd.large at $0.0904 and the m6i.large at $0.0960.

Running it in N. Virginia instead of São Paulo saves $51.36 a month per instance: $0.1187/hour against $0.1890/hour, a 59% spread.

On demand it costs $0.1187/hour in US East (N. Virginia), $86.61 a month if left running, which puts it mid-table for general purpose types at the 57th percentile per vCPU ($0.0593 per vCPU-hour) and the 57th percentile per GiB ($0.0148 per GiB-hour).

It has local instance storage (1 x 118 GB NVMe SSD), which is fast but lost when the instance stops. Network: Up to 12500 Megabit.

Looking beyond its own line, 23 of 41 current types with 2 vCPUs and similar memory are cheaper. The cheapest of those is the t4g.large on AWS Graviton2 at $0.0672/hour. It is burstable, so it only suits workloads that do not run the CPU flat out.