m7a.large

Analysis

The m7a.large is a general purpose instance in the m7a series with 2 vCPUs and 8 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.large on AWS Graviton3 costs $0.0816/hour, 30% less ($25.05 a month), though switching means rebuilding software for arm64. The other variants are the m7i-flex.large at $0.0958, the m7i.large at $0.1008 and the m7gd.large at $0.1068.

Compared with the previous generation, it costs 34% more than the m6a.large on AMD EPYC 7R13 ($21.55 more a month per instance), in exchange for the newer processor. The newer m8a.large on AMD EPYC 9R45 is 5.0% dearer at $0.1217/hour.

Running it in N. Virginia instead of Tokyo saves $24.68 a month per instance: $0.1159/hour against $0.1497/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 $0.1159/hour in US East (N. Virginia), $84.62 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).