m3.2xlarge vs im4gn.2xlarge

Instance Typem3.2xlargeim4gn.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.

im – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to four ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory30 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm3.2xlarge, m3.large, m3.medium, m3.xlargeim4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge
RDSdb.m3.2xlarge
OpenSearchm3.2xlarge.searchim4gn.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units26
Instance Storage2 x 80 SSD1 x 3750 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1000 MBpsup to 9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS20000 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 Diff1.00x1.22x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m3.2xlarge
im4gn.2xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)0.5850n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.61600.8022
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.8722
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.8722
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.63200.8022
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.67200.8022
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.73200.8260
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.74500.8440
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.76100.8442
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.77000.8442
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.78400.8535
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.8675
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.7276
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.53200.7276
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.53200.7276
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