m5dn.large vs i3.large

Instance Typem5dn.largei3.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
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
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5dn.12xlarge, m5dn.16xlarge, m5dn.24xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5dn.4xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge, m5dn.large, m5dn.metal, m5dn.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsm5dn.large, m6idn.large, m8idn.largei2.large, i3.large, i4i.large, i7i.large
Variantsm5.large, m5a.large, m5ad.large, m5d.large, m5n.large, m5zn.largei3en.large
OpenSearchi3.large.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units8
Instance Storage1 x 75 NVMe SSD1 x 475 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBps425 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth650 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput81.25 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3600 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance18750 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 25 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.17x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m5dn.large
i3.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.15200.1630
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)0.16200.1720
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)0.16700.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.17100.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.17100.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.17500.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.1810
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.13600.1560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.13600.1560
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.13600.1560
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