M6A 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.66th Generation6 = 6th GenerationAWS 6th generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.aAMD EPYCa = AMD EPYCAMD EPYC 7R13 Processor (x86_64). Powered by AMD EPYC x86_64 processors, delivering high core counts and cost-effective compute performance.

Alternatives to m6a

OptionPrice vs m6aWhy look at it
m6iCompare →
+11%+$0.0192/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Intel (x86_64), same vCPU and RAM
m6gCompare →
-11%-$0.0188/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

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AWS M6 Generation: M6i vs M6a vs M6g

General Purpose workhorses across Intel Ice Lake, AMD Milan, and Graviton2

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Instance types (10)

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
m6a.large28 GBx86_64$0.0556
m6a.xlarge416 GBx86_64$0.1111
m6a.2xlarge832 GBx86_64$0.2222
m6a.4xlarge1664 GBx86_64$0.4444
m6a.8xlarge32128 GBx86_64$0.8888
m6a.12xlarge48192 GBx86_64$1.3332
m6a.16xlarge64256 GBx86_64$1.7776
m6a.24xlarge96384 GBx86_64$2.6664
m6a.32xlarge128512 GBx86_64$3.5552
m6a.48xlarge192768 GBx86_64$5.3328