m5.xlarge vs i3.xlarge

Instance Typem5.xlargei3.xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
xlarge – 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
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory16 GiB30.5 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5.12xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m5.24xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m5.4xlarge, m5.8xlarge, m5.large, m5.metal, m5.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsm1.xlarge, m2.xlarge, m3.xlarge, m4.xlarge, m5.xlarge, m6i.xlarge, m7i.xlarge, m8i.xlargei2.xlarge, i3.xlarge, i4i.xlarge, i7i.xlarge
Variantsm5a.xlarge, m5ad.xlarge, m5d.xlarge, m5dn.xlarge, m5n.xlarge, m5zn.xlargei3en.xlarge
SageMakerml.m5.xlarge
RDSdb.m5.xlarge
OpenSearchm5.xlarge.searchi3.xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m5.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units1616
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 950 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBps850 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1150 Mbps850 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput143.75 Mbps106.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance18750 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps850 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps106.25 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.60x

Regional Prices

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m5.xlarge
i3.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20200.3260
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.22400.3620
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.22400.3620
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.22500.3660
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.23000.3660
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.23500.3660
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.23500.3720
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.23600.3740
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.24000.3740
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.24000.3740
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.24000.3740
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.20200.3440
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.24000.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.24200.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.24200.3780
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.24800.3780
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.24800.4090
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.25300.4100
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.25400.4120
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.26400.4980
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.3060n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.20400.3440
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.21400.3440
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.21400.3440
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.21400.3540
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.21400.3540
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.22200.3610
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.22400.3620
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.19200.3120
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.19200.3120
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.19200.3120
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