t3a.xlarge vs im4gn.xlarge
| t3a.xlarge | im4gn.xlarge |
| General purpose | Storage optimized |
| Websites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps. t – Burstable performance 3 – Generation a – AMD processor xlarge – 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 xlarge – Size |
| 4 | 4 |
| 16 GiB | 16 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| AMD EPYC 7571 | AWS Graviton2 Processor |
| 2.2 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 2 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| t3a.2xlarge, t3a.large, t3a.medium, t3a.micro, t3a.nano, t3a.small, t3a.xlarge | im4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge |
| t3.xlarge | |
| im4gn.xlarge.search | |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| yes | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 1875 SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 2780 MBps | up to 9500 MBps |
| 695 Mbps | 2500 Mbps |
| 86.875 Mbps | 312.5 Mbps |
| 4000 IOPS | 10000 IOPS |
| 15700 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 2780 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 347.5 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 5 Gigabit | Up to 25 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 2.37x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t3a.xlarge | im4gn.xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.0986 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1504 | 0.4011 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.1757 | 0.4361 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.1786 | 0.4361 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.1872 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.1888 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.1901 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.1958 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.2419 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1632 | 0.4011 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.1670 | 0.4011 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.1699 | 0.4130 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.1699 | 0.4220 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.1715 | 0.4221 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.1725 | 0.4221 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.1728 | 0.4268 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.1757 | 0.4338 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.1504 | 0.3638 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.1504 | 0.3638 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.3638 |
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