m7a.large vs is4gen.large

Instance Typem7a.largeis4gen.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

mMulti purpose
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
large – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

isIOPS / 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
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory8 GiB12 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R14 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed3.7 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm7a.12xlarge, m7a.16xlarge, m7a.24xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m7a.32xlarge, m7a.48xlarge, m7a.4xlarge, m7a.8xlarge, m7a.large, m7a.medium, m7a.metal-48xl, m7a.xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Generationsm5a.large, m6a.large, m7a.large, m8a.large
Variantsm7g.large, m7gd.large, m7i-flex.large, m7i.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1875 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth650 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput81.25 Mbps156.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3600 IOPS5000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12500 MegabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.49x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
m7a.large
is4gen.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.12320.3188
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.12920.3188
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.12920.3275
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.13400.3353
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.13890.3353
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.14490.3392
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.14970.3443
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.3455
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.3455
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.11590.2882
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.11590.2882
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.11590.2882
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