m8a.2xlarge vs i3.2xlarge

Instance Typem8a.2xlargei3.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
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
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed4.5 GHz2.3 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.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.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.2xlargei3en.2xlarge
RDSdb.m8a.2xlarge
OpenSearchi3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBps1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 15000 MegabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface4015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface4015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.36x

Regional Prices

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m8a.2xlarge
i3.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.51220.6520
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HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.7320
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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)0.51220.6880
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)0.54260.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.54260.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.58320.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.61360.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.62890.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.7220
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.7240
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.48690.6240
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.48690.6240
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.48690.6240
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