m5a.2xlarge vs i2.2xlarge
| m5a.2xlarge | i2.2xlarge |
| General purpose | Storage optimized |
| Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 5 – Generation a – AMD processor 2xlarge – Size | Obsolete. Not recommended for use NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks. i – IOPS / storage optimized 2 – Generation 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 32 GiB | 61 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC 7571 | Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge) |
| 2.5 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 2 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| m5a.12xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5a.24xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5a.4xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5a.large, m5a.xlarge | i2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge |
| m5a.2xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m8a.2xlarge | i2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge |
| m5.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge | |
| i2.2xlarge.search | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| 27 | |
| EBS only | 2 x 800 SSD |
| default | supported |
| supported | supported |
| required | unsupported |
| up to 2120 MBps | 1500 MBps |
| 1580 Mbps | 1000 Mbps |
| 197.5 Mbps | 125 Mbps |
| 8333 IOPS | 8000 IOPS |
| 16000 IOPS | 8000 IOPS |
| 2880 Mbps | 1000 Mbps |
| 360 Mbps | 125 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | High |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | unsupported |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 4.77x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | m5a.2xlarge | i2.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.2220 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.3440 | 1.8760 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.4320 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.4320 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.4360 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.4360 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.4480 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.5520 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.3840 | 1.8760 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.3840 | 1.9330 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.4000 | 2.0010 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.4040 | 2.0010 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.4040 | 2.0260 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.4040 | 2.0350 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.4160 | 2.0350 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.4240 | 2.0460 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.3440 | 1.7050 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.3440 | 1.7050 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 1.7050 |