m7a.24xlarge

Analysis

The m7a.24xlarge is a general purpose instance in the m7a series with 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of memory on AMD EPYC 9R14 (up to Up to 3.7 GHz), which makes it balanced at 4 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Compared with the previous generation, it costs 34% more than the m6a.24xlarge on AMD EPYC 7R13 ($1,034 more a month per instance), in exchange for the newer processor. The newer m8a.24xlarge on AMD EPYC 9R45 is 5.0% dearer at $5.84/hour.

Within the same generation and size, the m7i.24xlarge on Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) costs $4.84/hour, 13% less ($530 a month).

Running it in N. Virginia instead of Tokyo saves $1,185 a month per instance: $5.56/hour against $7.19/hour, a 29% spread. It is not offered in Canada Central, São Paulo, Mumbai and Singapore, so plan around that if you need a presence there.

On demand it costs $5.56/hour in US East (N. Virginia), $4,062 a month if left running, which puts it mid-table for general purpose types at the 55th percentile per vCPU ($0.0580 per vCPU-hour) and the 55th percentile per GiB ($0.0145 per GiB-hour).

Looking beyond its own line, 12 of 28 current types with 96 vCPUs and similar memory are cheaper. The cheapest of those is the hpc6a.48xlarge on AMD EPYC 7R13 at $2.88/hour.