m5n.2xlarge vs i2.2xlarge

Instance Typem5n.2xlargei2.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
n – Network and EBS optimized
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
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5n.12xlarge, m5n.16xlarge, m5n.24xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5n.4xlarge, m5n.8xlarge, m5n.large, m5n.metal, m5n.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsm5n.2xlarge, m6in.2xlarge, m8in.2xlargei2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsm5.2xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge
OpenSearchi2.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units27
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBps1500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2300 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput287.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance18750 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 25 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.50x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
m5n.2xlarge
i2.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.53201.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.56401.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.58401.9330
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.59602.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.59602.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.61202.0260
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a2.0350
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.0350
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.0460
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.47601.7050
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.47601.7050
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.47601.7050
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