m5dn.2xlarge vs i8g.2xlarge

Instance Typem5dn.2xlargei8g.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and 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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.1 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5dn.12xlarge, m5dn.16xlarge, m5dn.24xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5dn.4xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge, m5dn.large, m5dn.metal, m5dn.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsm5dn.2xlarge, m6idn.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlargei4g.2xlarge, i8g.2xlarge
Variantsm5.2xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlargei8ge.2xlarge
OpenSearchi8g.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance Storage1 x 300 NVMe SSD1 x 1875GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2300 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput287.5 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance18750 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 25 GigabitUp to 12 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnono
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 Diff1.00x1.27x

Regional Prices

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m5dn.2xlarge
i8g.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.60800.7176
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)0.64800.7564
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.66800.7564
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.68400.7564
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.68400.7788
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.70000.7964
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.7964
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.8052
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.8052
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.54400.6864
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.54400.6864
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.54400.6864
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