m4.large vs i4g.large

Instance Typem4.largei4g.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

mMulti purpose
4 – Generation
large – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

iIOPS / storage optimized
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory8 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.4 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.large, m4.xlargei4g.16xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge, i4g.large, i4g.xlarge
Generationsm1.large, m3.large, m4.large, m5.large, m6i.large, m7i.large, m8i.largei4g.large, i8g.large
Variantsi4i.large
RDSdb.m4.large
OpenSearchm4.large.searchi4g.large.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units6.5
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 468 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput450 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth450 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput56.25 Mbps78.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3600 IOPS2500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance3600 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth450 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput56.25 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces23
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.50x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
m4.large
i4g.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.10500.1702
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.1260n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.1290n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.1290n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.1590n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.11100.1702
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.11100.1851
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.11600.1851
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.11700.2466
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.1200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.1230n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.1250n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.1250n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.10000.1544
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.10000.1544
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.10000.1544
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