i3.2xlarge vs m5zn.2xlarge

Instance Typei3.2xlargem5zn.2xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedGeneral purpose
DetailsNoSQL 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
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
z – High performance
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory61 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon Platinum 8252
Clock Speed2.3 GHz4.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlargem5zn.12xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge, m5zn.3xlarge, m5zn.6xlarge, m5zn.large, m5zn.metal, m5zn.xlarge
Generationsi2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsi3en.2xlargem5.2xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge
OpenSearchi3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance Storage1 x 1900 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMesupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1750 MBps3170 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1700 Mbps3170 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput212.5 Mbps396.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS13333 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS13333 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1700 Mbps3170 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput212.5 Mbps396.25 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.07x

Regional Prices

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i3.2xlarge
m5zn.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.65200.7364
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.7240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.7240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.7320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.7320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.7320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.7440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.7480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.7480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.7480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.7480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.68800.7708
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.7520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.7520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.7570n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.7570n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.8180n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.8200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.8240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.9960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.68800.7914
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.68800.8120
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.68800.8260
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.70800.8260
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.70800.8534
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.72201.0530
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.7240n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.62400.6607
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.62400.6607
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.62400.6607
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