m3.2xlarge vs i8g.2xlarge

Instance Typem3.2xlargei8g.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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory30 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm3.2xlarge, m3.large, m3.medium, m3.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlargei4g.2xlarge, i8g.2xlarge
Variantsi8ge.2xlarge
RDSdb.m3.2xlarge
OpenSearchm3.2xlarge.searchi8g.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units26
Instance Storage2 x 80 SSD1 x 1875GB
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 12 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnono
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 Diff1.00x1.19x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m3.2xlarge
i8g.2xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)0.5850n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.61600.7176
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.8064
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.8184
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.8228
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.8228
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.8228
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.8272
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.8272
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a1.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.63200.7564
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.67200.7564
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.73200.7564
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.74500.7788
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.76100.7964
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.77000.7964
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.78400.8052
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.8052
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.6864
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.53200.6864
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.53200.6864
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