m8ib.2xlarge vs is4gen.2xlarge

Instance Typem8ib.2xlargeis4gen.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
b – EBS optimized
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 Scalable (Granite Rapids)AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed3.9 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8ib.12xlarge, m8ib.16xlarge, m8ib.24xlarge, m8ib.2xlarge, m8ib.32xlarge, m8ib.48xlarge, m8ib.4xlarge, m8ib.8xlarge, m8ib.96xlarge, m8ib.large, m8ib.metal-48xl, m8ib.metal-96xl, m8ib.xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Variantsm8a.2xlarge, m8g.2xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8i-flex.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge, m8idb.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge, m8ine.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 25000 MBpsup to 9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth6250 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput781.25 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance120000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth25000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput3125 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 26.66 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.78x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
m8ib.2xlarge
is4gen.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.74491.2750
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.74691.2750
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.85921.3100
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a1.3413
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a1.3413
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a1.3566
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a1.3770
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a1.3821
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.3821
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.66831.1526
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.66831.1526
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.66831.1526
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