m4.2xlarge vs is4gen.2xlarge

Instance Typem4.2xlargeis4gen.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
4 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

is – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to six ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB48 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.4 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.large, m4.xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge
SageMakerml.m4.2xlarge
RDSdb.m4.2xlarge
OpenSearchm4.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units26
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
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 Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.72x

Regional Prices

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m4.2xlarge
is4gen.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.42001.2750
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.5040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.5160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.5160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.6360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.44401.2750
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.44401.3100
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.46401.3413
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.46801.3413
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.48001.3566
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.49201.3770
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.50001.3821
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.50001.3821
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.40001.1526
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40001.1526
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.40001.1526
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