m8ib.4xlarge

Analysis

The m8ib.4xlarge is a general purpose instance in the m8ib series with 16 vCPUs and 64 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) (up to 3.9 GHz), which makes it balanced at 4 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Within the same generation and size, the m8g.4xlarge on AWS Graviton4 costs $0.7181/hour, 46% less ($452 a month), though switching means rebuilding software for arm64. The other variants are the m8i-flex.4xlarge at $0.8044, the m8i.4xlarge at $0.8467 and the m8gd.4xlarge at $0.9226.

Running it in N. Virginia instead of Tokyo saves $279 a month per instance: $1.34/hour against $1.72/hour, a 29% spread. It is not offered in Canada Central, São Paulo, London, Frankfurt, Mumbai, Singapore and Sydney, so plan around that if you need a presence there.

Per vCPU it is one of the dearer general purpose types: 87% of the 354 current types in the family cost less than its $0.0835 per vCPU-hour. The premium mostly pays for a newer processor or a specialised configuration. On demand it is $1.34/hour in US East (N. Virginia), or $976 for a 730-hour month.

Looking beyond its own line, 30 of 37 current types with 16 vCPUs and similar memory are cheaper. The cheapest of those is the m6g.4xlarge on AWS Graviton2 at $0.6160/hour.