h1.2xlarge vs m5n.2xlarge

Instance Typeh1.2xlargem5n.2xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedGeneral purpose
DetailsAmazon EMR workloads, distributed file systems (HDFS, MapR-FS), network file systems, log/data processing apps (like Apache Kafka), and big data clusters.

h – HDD / hard disk throughput optimized
1 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlargem5n.12xlarge, m5n.16xlarge, m5n.24xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5n.4xlarge, m5n.8xlarge, m5n.large, m5n.metal, m5n.xlarge
Generationsm5n.2xlarge, m6in.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge
Variantsm5.2xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance Storage1 x 2000 HDDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1750 MBpsup to 3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps2300 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps287.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS18750 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1750 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput218.75 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.14x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
h1.2xlarge
m5n.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.51900.5320
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.5640
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.6120
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.46800.4760
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.46800.4760
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.46800.4760
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