m3.2xlarge vs i3en.2xlarge

Instance Typem3.2xlargei3en.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
3 – Generation
2xlarge – 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
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory30 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed2.5 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm3.2xlarge, m3.large, m3.medium, m3.xlargei3en.12xlarge, i3en.24xlarge, i3en.2xlarge, i3en.3xlarge, i3en.6xlarge, i3en.large, i3en.metal, i3en.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge
Variantsi3.2xlarge
SageMakerml.i3en.2xlarge
RDSdb.m3.2xlarge
OpenSearchm3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units2637
Instance Storage2 x 80 SSD2 x 2500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1000 MBpsup to 3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps2307 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps288.3875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance8000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1000 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput125 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.57x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m3.2xlarge
i3en.2xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)0.5850n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.61600.9480
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.0280
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.0280
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.0490
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.0500
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.0520
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.0520
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a1.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a1.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a1.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.63200.9490
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a1.0800
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a1.0840
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a1.0840
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a1.0840
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a1.0840
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a1.0920
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a1.0920
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a1.0950
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a1.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a1.1380
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.67200.9580
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a1.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a1.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a1.1930
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a1.4400
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.73200.9760
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.74500.9760
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.76101.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.77001.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.78401.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.0000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.9040
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.53200.9040
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.53200.9040
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