m8a.2xlarge vs i3en.2xlarge
| m8a.2xlarge | i3en.2xlarge |
| General purpose | Storage optimized |
| Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 8 – Generation a – AMD processor 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 |
| 8 | 8 |
| 32 GiB | 64 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor | Intel Xeon Platinum 8175 |
| 4.5 GHz | 3.1 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| m8a.12xlarge, m8a.16xlarge, m8a.24xlarge, m8a.2xlarge, m8a.48xlarge, m8a.4xlarge, m8a.8xlarge, m8a.large, m8a.medium, m8a.metal-24xl, m8a.metal-48xl, m8a.xlarge | i3en.12xlarge, i3en.24xlarge, i3en.2xlarge, i3en.3xlarge, i3en.6xlarge, i3en.large, i3en.metal, i3en.xlarge |
| m5a.2xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m8a.2xlarge | |
| m8g.2xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8i-flex.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8ib.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge, m8idb.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge, m8ine.2xlarge | i3.2xlarge |
| ml.i3en.2xlarge | |
| db.m8a.2xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| 37 | |
| EBS only | 2 x 2500 NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 10000 MBps | up to 3500 MBps |
| 2500 Mbps | 2307 Mbps |
| 312.5 Mbps | 288.3875 Mbps |
| 12000 IOPS | 12000 IOPS |
| 40000 IOPS | 20000 IOPS |
| 10000 Mbps | 4750 Mbps |
| 1250 Mbps | 593.75 Mbps |
| Up to 15000 Megabit | Up to 25 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 40 | 15 |
| 40 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.93x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | m8a.2xlarge | i3en.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.5426 | 0.9480 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 1.0000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 1.0280 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 1.0280 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 1.0490 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 1.0500 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 1.0520 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 1.0520 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 1.0640 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | n/a | 1.0640 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | n/a | 1.0640 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.5426 | 0.9490 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | n/a | 1.0800 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | n/a | 1.0840 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | n/a | 1.0840 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | n/a | 1.0840 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | n/a | 1.0840 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | n/a | 1.0920 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | n/a | 1.0920 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | n/a | 1.0950 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | n/a | 1.1000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | n/a | 1.1380 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.5832 | 0.9580 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | n/a | 1.1880 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | n/a | 1.1880 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | n/a | 1.1930 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | n/a | 1.4400 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.6136 | 0.9760 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.6289 | 0.9760 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 1.0000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 1.0000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 1.0000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 1.0000 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.4869 | 0.9040 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4869 | 0.9040 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.4869 | 0.9040 |