m3.2xlarge vs i7ie.2xlarge

Instance Typem3.2xlargei7ie.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
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
e – Extra storage or memory
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory30 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz3.6 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm3.2xlarge, m3.large, m3.medium, m3.xlargei7ie.12xlarge, i7ie.18xlarge, i7ie.24xlarge, i7ie.2xlarge, i7ie.3xlarge, i7ie.48xlarge, i7ie.6xlarge, i7ie.large, i7ie.metal-24xl, i7ie.metal-48xl, i7ie.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge
Variantsi7i.2xlarge
RDSdb.m3.2xlarge
OpenSearchm3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units26
Instance Storage2 x 80 SSD2 x 2500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1000 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance8000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput125 Mbps1250 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 Diff1.00x1.80x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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Geography
Region
m3.2xlarge
i7ie.2xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)0.5850n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.61601.0902
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.1822
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.1822
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.2061
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.2098
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.2098
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.2236
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.2236
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a1.2420
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a1.2466
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a1.2466
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.63201.0916
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a1.2466
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a1.2466
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a1.2558
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a1.2558
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a1.3662
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a1.3662
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a1.3723
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a1.6560
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.67201.1219
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.73201.1219
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.74501.1500
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.76101.1500
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.77001.1500
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.78401.1500
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.1500
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a1.0396
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.53201.0396
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.53201.0396
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