M7I-FLEX General Purpose

Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purposem = General PurposeBalanced compute, memory, and networking resources for a wide variety of standard enterprise workloads and microservices.77th Generation7 = 7th GenerationAWS 7th generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.iIntel Xeon Scalablei = Intel Xeon ScalableIntel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) (x86_64). Powered by Intel Xeon Scalable x86_64 processors with Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX-512 / AMX) acceleration.flexFlex Instanceflex = Flex InstanceFlex instances offer up to 19% better price-to-performance for workloads that do not continuously utilize full compute capacity.

Alternatives to m7i-flex

OptionPrice vs m7i-flexWhy look at it
m7iCompare →
+5%+$0.0101/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Different family variant, same vCPU and RAM
m7aCompare →
+21%+$0.0403/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		AMD (x86_64), same vCPU and RAM
m7gCompare →
-15%-$0.0283/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Graviton (arm64), same vCPU and RAM

Common use cases

  • Web servers
  • Application servers
  • Small-to-medium databases
  • Development environments

Head-to-Head Architecture Comparisons

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Silicon Trianglem7i vs m7a vs m7g vs m7i-flex

AWS M7 Generation: M7i vs M7a vs M7g vs M7i-flex

Comparing modern 4:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio General Purpose workhorses

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Architecture & Sizingm7i vs m7i-flex

AWS General Purpose Flex Comparison: M7i vs M7i-flex

5% savings on standard 4:1 RAM general purpose workloads

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Instance types (7)

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
m7i-flex.large28 GBx86_64$0.0958
m7i-flex.xlarge416 GBx86_64$0.1915
m7i-flex.2xlarge832 GBx86_64$0.3830
m7i-flex.4xlarge1664 GBx86_64$0.7661
m7i-flex.8xlarge32128 GBx86_64$1.5322
m7i-flex.12xlarge48192 GBx86_64$2.2982
m7i-flex.16xlarge64256 GBx86_64$3.0643