m2.2xlarge vs i3.2xlarge

Instance Typem2.2xlargei3.2xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
2 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
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
3 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs48
Memory34.2 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon FamilyIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm2.2xlarge, m2.4xlarge, m2.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlargei2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsi3en.2xlarge
RDSdb.m2.2xlarge
OpenSearchi3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units1331
Instance Storage1 x 850 SSD1 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedsupported
Dedicated Throughput1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth500 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput62.5 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance4000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth500 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput62.5 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportunsupportedsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.30x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m2.2xlarge
i3.2xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)0.5500n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.55000.6520
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.7440
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.57500.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.8180
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.8200
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.8240
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.9960
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.58600.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.59200.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.59200.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.64500.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.7220
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.7240
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.6240
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.49000.6240
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.49000.6240
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