m2.2xlarge vs i8ge.2xlarge

Instance Typem2.2xlargei8ge.2xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
2 – 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
e – Extra storage or memory
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs48
Memory34.2 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon FamilyAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm2.2xlarge, m2.4xlarge, m2.xlargei8ge.12xlarge, i8ge.18xlarge, i8ge.24xlarge, i8ge.2xlarge, i8ge.3xlarge, i8ge.48xlarge, i8ge.6xlarge, i8ge.large, i8ge.metal-24xl, i8ge.metal-48xl, i8ge.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge
Variantsi8g.2xlarge
RDSdb.m2.2xlarge
OpenSearchi8ge.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units13
Instance Storage1 x 850 SSD2 x 2500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth500 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput62.5 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance4000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput62.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateUp 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 Diff1.00x1.91x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m2.2xlarge
i8ge.2xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)0.5500n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.55000.9954
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.1172
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.1340
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.1382
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.1382
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.1466
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.1466
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.2537
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.57501.0248
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.58601.0248
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.59201.0500
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.59201.0500
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.64501.0794
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a1.1046
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a1.1046
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.1172
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.9492
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.49000.9492
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.49000.9492
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