a1.2xlarge vs m3.2xlarge
| a1.2xlarge | m3.2xlarge |
| General purpose | General purpose |
| Obsolete. Not recommended for use Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments. a – ARM AWS Graviton Processor 1 – Generation 2xlarge – Size | Obsolete. Not recommended for use Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 3 – Generation 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 16 GiB | 30 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge) |
| 2.3 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | m3.2xlarge, m3.large, m3.medium, m3.xlarge |
| m2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge | |
| db.m3.2xlarge | |
| m3.2xlarge.search | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| 26 | |
| EBS only | 2 x 80 SSD |
| default | supported |
| supported | supported |
| required | unsupported |
| up to 3500 MBps | 1000 MBps |
| 1750 Mbps | 1000 Mbps |
| 218.75 Mbps | 125 Mbps |
| 10000 IOPS | 8000 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 8000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 1000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 125 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | High |
| yes | no |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 30 |
| 15 | |
| yes | no |
| required | unsupported |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 2.96x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.2xlarge | m3.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.2040 | n/a |
| Europe | Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1) | n/a | 0.5850 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.2040 | 0.6160 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.2304 | 0.6320 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2328 | 0.6720 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2352 | 0.7320 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2568 | 0.7450 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2664 | 0.7610 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.7700 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.7840 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.2040 | n/a |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.2040 | 0.5320 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.5320 |