m6g.metal vs i3.metal

Instance Typem6g.metali3.metal
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
metal – Bare metal
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
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs6464
Memory256 GiB488 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64n/a
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core10
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm6g.12xlarge, m6g.16xlarge, m6g.2xlarge, m6g.4xlarge, m6g.8xlarge, m6g.large, m6g.medium, m6g.metal, m6g.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsm6g.metal, m7g.metali3.metal, i4i.metal
Variantsm6a.metal, m6gd.metal, m6i.metal, m6id.metal, m6idn.metal, m6in.metali3en.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201
Instance StorageEBS only8 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput18000 MBps14000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit20 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces15
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.04x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m6g.metal
i3.metal
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)1.6192n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.6192n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.46405.2160
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.75205.8560
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.84165.8560
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.85125.9520
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.86725.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.86725.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.88006.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.88966.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.94406.0540
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)3.00806.5600
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)3.00806.5920
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.46405.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.02727.9680
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.0720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.0720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.0720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.0720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.0976n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.0976n/a
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HiddenHidden (hidden-28)3.1744n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)3.2256n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.58755.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)3.2384n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)3.2512n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)3.3920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)3.9168n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.61125.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.61125.6640
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.62405.7920
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.73925.7920
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.73925.7920
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.75205.8560
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a4.9920
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.46404.9920
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a4.9920
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