m9gd.2xlarge vs i3.2xlarge

Instance Typem9gd.2xlargei3.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
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 Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton5 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed3.3 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm9gd.12xlarge, m9gd.16xlarge, m9gd.24xlarge, m9gd.2xlarge, m9gd.48xlarge, m9gd.4xlarge, m9gd.8xlarge, m9gd.large, m9gd.medium, m9gd.metal-48xl, m9gd.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsm6gd.2xlarge, m7gd.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m9gd.2xlargei2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsm9g.2xlargei3en.2xlarge
OpenSearchi3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance Storage1 x 474 NVMe SSD1 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 12000 MBps1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3000 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput375 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance48000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth12000 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1500 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 17 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.39x

Regional Prices

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m9gd.2xlarge
i3.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.60520.6520
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)n/a0.6880
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)n/a0.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.7220
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.7240
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.50280.6240
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.50280.6240
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.50280.6240
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