m7a.48xlarge

Analysis

The m7a.48xlarge is a general purpose instance in the m7a series with 192 vCPUs and 768 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.48xlarge on AMD EPYC 7R13 ($2,069 more a month per instance), in exchange for the newer processor. The newer m8a.48xlarge on AMD EPYC 9R45 is 5.0% dearer at $11.69/hour.

Within the same generation and size, the m7i.48xlarge on Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) costs $9.68/hour, 13% less ($1,060 a month).

Running it in N. Virginia instead of Tokyo saves $2,369 a month per instance: $11.13/hour against $14.37/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 $11.13/hour in US East (N. Virginia), $8,124 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, 8 of 18 current types with 192 vCPUs and similar memory are cheaper. The cheapest of those is the hpc7a.96xlarge on AMD EPYC 9R14 at $7.20/hour.