a1.2xlarge vs m5.2xlarge

Instance Typea1.2xlargem5.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsObsolete. 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
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargem5.12xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m5.24xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m5.4xlarge, m5.8xlarge, m5.large, m5.metal, m5.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge
Variantsm5a.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge
SageMakerml.m5.2xlarge
RDSdb.m5.2xlarge
OpenSearchm5.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m5.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units37
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps2300 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps287.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS18750 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.03x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.2xlarge
m5.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20400.4040
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.4490
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.4600
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.4710
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.4710
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.4720
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23040.4040
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.4840
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.4840
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.5060
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.5080
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.5280
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.6120
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.23280.4080
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23520.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25680.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.26640.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.4440
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.4480
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.20400.3840
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.20400.3840
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.3840
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