m3.large vs i3.large
| m3.large | i3.large |
| General purpose | Storage optimized |
| Obsolete. Not recommended for use Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 3 – Generation large – 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 large – Size |
| 2 | 2 |
| 7.5 GiB | 15.25 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge) | Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) |
| 2.5 GHz | 2.3 GHz |
| 2 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| m3.2xlarge, m3.large, m3.medium, m3.xlarge | i3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge |
| m1.large, m3.large, m4.large, m5.large, m6i.large, m7i.large, m8i.large | i2.large, i3.large, i4i.large, i7i.large |
| i3en.large | |
| db.m3.large | |
| m3.large.search | i3.large.search |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| 6.5 | 8 |
| 1 x 32 SSD | 1 x 475 NVMe SSD |
| unsupported | default |
| supported | supported |
| unsupported | supported |
| 425 MBps | |
| 425 Mbps | |
| 53.125 Mbps | |
| 3000 IOPS | |
| 3000 IOPS | |
| 425 Mbps | |
| 53.125 Mbps | |
| Moderate | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| no | yes |
| 3 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 10 |
| 10 | |
| no | yes |
| unsupported | supported |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.10x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | m3.large | i3.large |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1) | 0.1460 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1540 | 0.1630 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.1810 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.1810 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.1830 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.1830 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 0.1830 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 0.1860 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 0.1870 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 0.1870 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | n/a | 0.1870 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | n/a | 0.1870 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1580 | 0.1720 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | n/a | 0.1880 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | n/a | 0.1880 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | n/a | 0.1890 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | n/a | 0.1890 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | n/a | 0.2050 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | n/a | 0.2050 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | n/a | 0.2060 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | n/a | 0.2490 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.1680 | 0.1720 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.1830 | 0.1720 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.1860 | 0.1720 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.1900 | 0.1770 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.1930 | 0.1770 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.1960 | 0.1810 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.1810 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | n/a | 0.1560 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.1330 | 0.1560 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.1330 | 0.1560 |