m6id.24xlarge is AWS's general-purpose EC2 size at 96 vCPU and 384 GiB. In the name, "m" is the general-purpose line, "6" is the generation, "id" marks Intel processors and local NVMe storage and "24xlarge" is the size within the m6id family. It runs on Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake) at 3.5 GHz, and AWS introduced it in May 2022. AWS has since shipped m7i, m8id and m9g; m7i.24xlarge is the direct replacement at this size, scoring 2,034,760 CoreMark/s against this instance's 1,695,439 — roughly 20% more throughput for the same vCPU count. The closest Spot shape is gp.vs2.2xlarge at 16 vCPU, so this instance maps to 6 of them — 96 vCPU and 384 GiB across the fleet, $5.70/hr on AWS in US East (N. Virginia), from $0.246/hr on Rackspace Spot. Spot delivers compute as managed Kubernetes, so a node pool of that size is the native shape of the answer rather than a workaround — provided the workload scales horizontally.
| Region | AWS on-demand | AWS Spot | 1-yr Reserved | 3-yr Reserved | Rackspace Spot | You save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US East, N. Virginia | $5.695 | $1.164 | $3.588 | $2.460 | $0.246 | $5.449 savings |
| US Central, Chicago | no AWS region | $0.246 | ||||
| US Central, Dallas | no AWS region | $0.306 | ||||
| Hong Kong | $0.066 | |||||
| Sydney, Australia | $7.157 | $1.015 | $4.509 | $3.092 | $0.966 | $6.191 savings |
| London, UK | $6.602 | $0.660 | $4.160 | $2.852 | $1.326 | $5.276 savings |
| US West, San Jose | $6.703 | $2.108 | $4.223 | $2.896 | $0.906 | $5.797 savings |
| US Central, Dallas 2 | no AWS region | $0.006 | ||||
| US East, N. Virginia 2 | $5.695 | $1.164 | $3.588 | $2.460 | $0.906 | $4.789 savings |