m5a.2xlarge vs is4gen.2xlarge

Instance Typem5a.2xlargeis4gen.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
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
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5a.12xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5a.24xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5a.4xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5a.large, m5a.xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Generationsm5a.2xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m8a.2xlarge
Variantsm5.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBpsup to 9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1580 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput197.5 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8333 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.22x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m5a.2xlarge
is4gen.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2220n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.34401.2750
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.4320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.4320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.4360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.4360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.4480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.5520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.38401.2750
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.38401.3100
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.40001.3413
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.40401.3413
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.40401.3566
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.40401.3770
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.41601.3821
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.42401.3821
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.34401.1526
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.34401.1526
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.1526
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