m5a.large vs i3.large

Instance Typem5a.largei3.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
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
Memory8 GiB15.25 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5a.12xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5a.24xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5a.4xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5a.large, m5a.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsm5a.large, m6a.large, m7a.large, m8a.largei2.large, i3.large, i4i.large, i7i.large
Variantsm5.large, m5ad.large, m5d.large, m5dn.large, m5n.large, m5zn.largei3en.large
OpenSearchi3.large.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units8
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 475 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBps425 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth650 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput81.25 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3600 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.83x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m5a.large
i3.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.0560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.08600.1630
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.10800.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.10800.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.10900.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.10900.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.11200.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.13800.1860
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)0.09600.1720
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)0.09600.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.10000.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.10100.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.10100.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.10100.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.10400.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.10600.1810
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.08600.1560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.08600.1560
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.1560
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