m8a.2xlarge vs i2.2xlarge

Instance Typem8a.2xlargei2.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – 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
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed4.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8a.12xlarge, m8a.16xlarge, m8a.24xlarge, m8a.2xlarge, m8a.48xlarge, m8a.4xlarge, m8a.8xlarge, m8a.large, m8a.medium, m8a.metal-24xl, m8a.metal-48xl, m8a.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsm5a.2xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m8a.2xlargei2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsm8g.2xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8i-flex.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8ib.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge, m8idb.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge, m8ine.2xlarge
RDSdb.m8a.2xlarge
OpenSearchi2.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units27
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBps1500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 15000 MegabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface4015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface4015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.54x

Regional Prices

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m8a.2xlarge
i2.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.51221.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.51221.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.54261.9330
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.54262.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.58322.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.61362.0260
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.62892.0350
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.0350
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.0460
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.48691.7050
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.48691.7050
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.48691.7050
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