m4.2xlarge vs c7gn.2xlarge

Instance Typem4.2xlargec7gn.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
4 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

c – Compute optimized
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)AWS Graviton3 Processor
Clock Speed2.4 GHz2.6 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.large, m4.xlargec7gn.12xlarge, c7gn.16xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c7gn.large, c7gn.medium, c7gn.metal, c7gn.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlargec6gn.2xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c8gn.2xlarge
Variantsc7a.2xlarge, c7g.2xlarge, c7gd.2xlarge, c7i-flex.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge
SageMakerml.m4.2xlarge
RDSdb.m4.2xlarge
OpenSearchm4.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.2xlargecache.c7gn.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units26
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1000 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps4167 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps520.875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS16667 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance8000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput125 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 50 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.15x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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Geography
Region
m4.2xlarge
c7gn.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.42000.5640
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.5040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.5160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.5160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.6360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.44400.5920
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.44400.6296
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.4640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.4680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.4800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.4920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.5000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.5000n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.40000.4992
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40000.4992
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.40000.4992
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