m7a.2xlarge

Analysis

The m7a.2xlarge is a general purpose instance in the m7a series with 8 vCPUs and 32 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.

Within the same generation and size, the m7g.2xlarge on AWS Graviton3 costs $0.3264/hour, 30% less ($100 a month), though switching means rebuilding software for arm64. The other variants are the m7i-flex.2xlarge at $0.3830, the m7i.2xlarge at $0.4032 and the m7gd.2xlarge at $0.4271.

Compared with the previous generation, it costs 34% more than the m6a.2xlarge on AMD EPYC 7R13 ($86.20 more a month per instance), in exchange for the newer processor. The newer m8a.2xlarge on AMD EPYC 9R45 is 5.0% dearer at $0.4869/hour.

Running it in N. Virginia instead of Tokyo saves $98.73 a month per instance: $0.4637/hour against $0.5989/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 $0.4637/hour in US East (N. Virginia), $338 a month if left running, which puts it mid-table for general purpose types at the 54th percentile per vCPU ($0.0580 per vCPU-hour) and the 54th percentile per GiB ($0.0145 per GiB-hour).