m8gb.2xlarge vs i4i.2xlarge

Instance Typem8gb.2xlargei4i.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
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
4 – Generation
i – Intel processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8gb.12xlarge, m8gb.16xlarge, m8gb.24xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gb.48xlarge, m8gb.4xlarge, m8gb.8xlarge, m8gb.large, m8gb.medium, m8gb.metal-24xl, m8gb.metal-48xl, m8gb.xlargei4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlarge
Generationsi4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsm8a.2xlarge, m8g.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8i-flex.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8ib.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge, m8idb.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge, m8ine.2xlargei4g.2xlarge
OpenSearchi4i.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1875 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 25000 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth12500 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1562.5 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance60000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance120000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth25000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput3125 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 33.333 GigabitUp to 12 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.32x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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Geography
Region
m8gb.2xlarge
i4i.2xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)0.6505n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a0.7170
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.7790
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.7790
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.7950
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.8050
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.8050
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.8050
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.7210
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.8180
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.8270
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.8270
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.8640
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.7250
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.9000
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.9020
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.9060
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a1.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.7570
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.6860
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.58200.6860
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.58200.6860
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