Skip to main content

Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 M6i Instances

General purpose instances powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors

Get started with M6i Instances

Why Amazon EC2 M6i Instances?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) M6i instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to M5 instances. M6i instances feature a 4:1 ratio of memory to vCPU similar to M5 instances, and support up to 128 vCPUs per instance, which is 33% more than M5 instances. The M6i instances are SAP Certified and ideal for workloads such as backend servers supporting enterprise applications (such as Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint, SAP Business Suite, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL databases), gaming servers, caching fleets, and application development environments.

M6id instances have local NVMe-based solid state drive (SSD) block-level storage for applications that need high-speed, low-latency local storage. Compared to previous-generation M5d instances, M6id instances offer up to 58% higher TB storage per vCPU and 34% lower cost per TB.

M6in and M6idn instances offer up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance than M5n and M5dn instances. The M6in and M6idn instances also deliver up to 100 Gbps bandwidth and up to 400K IOPS of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) performance, the fastest block-storage performance on EC2. Customers can use these performance gains to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads. These workloads include high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function (UPF).

M6in and M6idn instances now available

6th Generation general purpose instances are now available, with up to 200 Gbps bandwidth, up to 4x faster than M6i instances. They provide faster transfers and communication for your network-intensive workloads.

Learn more

Benefits

M6i instances deliver up to 15% better price performance than M5 instances. M6i instances also offer new larger sizes, with up to 128 vCPUs and 512 GiB of memory that you can use to consolidate workloads on fewer instances.

M6i instances add to the broadest and deepest selection of EC2 instances on AWS. Ten different instance sizes are offered, with varying amounts of vCPU, memory, networking, and storage. Choose from any of these sizes to run a broad range of general purpose workloads. 

M6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor. AWS Nitro delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security.

Features

M6i instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, and include support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). M6i instances also support new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX-512) instructions for faster processing of cryptographic algorithms.

M6in and M6idn instances offer up to 200 Gbps networking, up to 2x higher than M5n and M5dn instances. M6in and M6idn instances also support up to 100 Gbps bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), up to 5.2x higher than M5n and M5dn instances. M6i instances provide up to 20% higher memory bandwidth per vCPU compared to M5 instances. You can also enable Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) in M6i, M6id, M6in, and M6idn instances on the 32xlarge and metal sizes.

M6id and M6idn instances have up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage and deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to previous-generation instances. M6id and M6idn instances are ideal for a wide range of general purpose workloads, including those that need access to high-speed, low-latency local storage.

M6i

Amazon EC2 M6i and M6id instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and offer a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources for a broad range of workloads.

Instance Size
vCPU
Memory (GiB)
Instance Storage (GB)
Network Bandwidth (Gbps)
EBS Bandwidth (Gbps)
m6i.large
2
8
EBS-Only
Up to 12.5
Up to 10
m6i.xlarge
4
16
EBS-Only
Up to 12.5
Up to 10
m6i.2xlarge
8
32
EBS-Only
Up to 12.5
Up to 10
m6i.4xlarge
16
64
EBS-Only
Up to 12.5
Up to 10
m6i.8xlarge
32
128
EBS-Only
12.5
10
m6i.12xlarge
48
192
EBS-Only
18.75
15
m6i.16xlarge
64
256
EBS-Only
25
20
m6i.24xlarge
96
384
EBS-Only
37.5
30
m6i.32xlarge
128
512
EBS-Only
50
40
m6i.metal
128
512
EBS-Only
50
40
m6id.large
2
8
1x118 NVMe SSD
Up to 12.5
Up to 10
m6id.xlarge
4
16
1x237 NVMe SSD
Up to 12.5
Up to 10
m6id.2xlarge
8
32
1x474 NVMe SSD
Up to 12.5
Up to 10
m6id.4xlarge
16
64
1x950 NVMe SSD
Up to 12.5
Up to 10
m6id.8xlarge
32
128
1x1900 NVMe SSD
12.5
10
m6id.12xlarge
48
192
2x1425 NVMe SSD
18.75
15
m6id.16xlarge
64
256
2x1900 NVMe SSD
25
20
m6id.24xlarge
96
384
4x1425 NVMe SSD
37.5
30
m6id.32xlarge
128
512
4x1900 NVMe SSD
50
40
m6id.metal
128
512
4x1900 NVMe SSD
50
40

M6in

Instance Size
vCPU
Memory (GiB)
Instance Storage (GB)
Network Bandwidth (Gbps)
EBS Bandwidth (Gbps)
m6in.large
2
8
EBS-Only
Up to 25
Up to 25
m6in.xlarge
4
16
EBS-Only
Up to 30
Up to 25
m6in.2xlarge
8
32
EBS-Only
Up to 40
Up to 25
m6in.4xlarge
16
64
EBS-Only
Up to 50
Up to 25
m6in.8xlarge
32
128
EBS-Only
50
25
m6in.12xlarge
48
192
EBS-Only
75
37.5
m6in.16xlarge
64
256
EBS-Only
100
50
m6in.24xlarge
96
384
EBS-Only
150
75
m6in.32xlarge
128
512
EBS-Only
200*
100
m6in.metal
128
512
EBS-Only
200*
100
m6idn.large
2
8
1x118 NVMe SSD
Up to 25
Up to 25
m6idn.xlarge
4
16
1x237 NVMe SSD
Up to 30
Up to 25
m6idn.2xlarge
8
32
1x474 NVMe SSD
Up to 40
Up to 25
m6idn.4xlarge
16
64
1x950 NVMe SSD
Up to 50
Up to 25
m6idn.8xlarge
32
128
1x1900 NVMe SSD
50
25
m6idn.12xlarge
48
192
2x1425 NVMe SSD
75
37.5
m6idn.16xlarge
64
256
2x1900 NVMe SSD
100
50
m6idn.24xlarge
96
384
4x1425 NVMe SSD
150
75
m6idn.32xlarge
128
512
4x1900 NVMe SSD
200*
100
m6idn.metal
128
512
4x1900 NVMe SSD
200*
100

Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. M6in and M6idn instances offer up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 100 Gbps EBS bandwidth. The 32xlarge and metal instance sizes support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances. Use EFA-enabled instances to run applications that require high levels of inter-node communications at scale on AWS.

*For 32xlarge and metal sizes, at least 2 elastic network interfaces, with each attached to a different network card, are required on the instance to achieve 200 Gbps throughput. Each network interface attached to a network card can achieve a maximum of 170 Gbps. For more information, see Network cards.