m3.large vs i3.large

Instance Typem3.largei3.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. 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
vCPUs22
Memory7.5 GiB15.25 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm3.2xlarge, m3.large, m3.medium, m3.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsm1.large, m3.large, m4.large, m5.large, m6i.large, m7i.large, m8i.largei2.large, i3.large, i4i.large, i7i.large
Variantsi3en.large
RDSdb.m3.large
OpenSearchm3.large.searchi3.large.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units6.58
Instance Storage1 x 32 SSD1 x 475 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedsupported
Dedicated Throughput425 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth425 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput53.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth425 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput53.125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface10
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportunsupportedsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.10x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m3.large
i3.large
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)0.1460n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.15400.1630
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.1860
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.15800.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.2060
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.2490
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.16800.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.18300.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.18600.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.19000.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.19300.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.19600.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.1810
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.1560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.13300.1560
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.13300.1560
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