m8azn.3xlarge vs i2.4xlarge

Instance Typem8azn.3xlargei2.4xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
z – High performance
n – Network and EBS optimized
3xlarge – 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
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1216
Memory48 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9575FIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8azn.12xlarge, m8azn.24xlarge, m8azn.3xlarge, m8azn.6xlarge, m8azn.large, m8azn.medium, m8azn.metal-12xl, m8azn.metal-24xl, m8azn.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsi2.4xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i7i.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units53
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 15360 MBps1500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7500 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput937.5 Mbps250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth15000 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1875 Mbps250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 50 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface4030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface4030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.80x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
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On Demand
Geography
Region
m8azn.3xlarge
i2.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.38083.7510
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.48403.7510
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.60013.8670
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a4.0020
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a4.0020
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a4.0510
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a4.0700
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a4.0700
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a4.0920
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.23883.4100
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.23883.4100
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.23883.4100
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