m1.small vs m1.medium

Accelerators
Instance Type	m1.small	m1.medium
Instance Family	General purpose	General purpose
Details	Obsolete. Not recommended for use Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 1 – Generation small – Size	Obsolete. Not recommended for use Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 1 – Generation medium – Size
vCPUs	1	1
Memory	1.7 GiB	3.75 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Family	Intel Xeon Family
Threads Per Core	1	1
GPU	no	no
Inference Accelerator	no	no
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	m1.large, m1.medium, m1.small, m1.xlarge	m1.large, m1.medium, m1.small, m1.xlarge
Generations		m1.medium, m3.medium
RDS	db.m1.small	db.m1.medium
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	no	no
EC2 Compute Units	1	2
Instance Storage	1 x 160 SSD	1 x 410 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized	unsupported	unsupported
Encryption	supported	supported
NVMe	unsupported	unsupported
Networking
Networking Performance	Low	Moderate
Enhanced Networking	no	no
Max Interfaces	2	2
Max Cards	1	1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	4	6
IPv6 Support	no	no
ENA Support	unsupported	unsupported
EFA Support	no	no
Encryption in Transit Support	no	no
ENA SRD Support	no	no
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	2.01x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)

Per Hour

Linux

Shared Tenancy

On Demand

Geography	Region	m1.small	m1.medium
Europe	Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1)	0.0470	0.0950
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	0.0470	0.0950
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	0.0530	0.1060
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	0.0580	0.1170
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	0.0580	0.1170
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	0.0580	0.1170
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	0.0610	0.1220
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	0.0440	0.0870
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	0.0440	0.0870

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