m3.large vs m2.xlarge

Accelerators
Instance Type	m3.large	m2.xlarge
Instance Family	General purpose	Memory optimized
Details	Obsolete. Not recommended for use Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 3 – Generation large – Size	Obsolete. Not recommended for use Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 2 – Generation xlarge – Size
vCPUs	2	2
Memory	7.5 GiB	17.1 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)	Intel Xeon Family
Clock Speed	2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core	2	1
GPU	no	no
Inference Accelerator	no	no
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	m3.2xlarge, m3.large, m3.medium, m3.xlarge	m2.2xlarge, m2.4xlarge, m2.xlarge
Generations	m1.large, m3.large, m4.large, m5.large, m6i.large, m7i.large, m8i.large	m1.xlarge, m2.xlarge, m3.xlarge, m4.xlarge, m5.xlarge, m6i.xlarge, m7i.xlarge, m8i.xlarge
RDS	db.m3.large	db.m2.xlarge
OpenSearch	m3.large.search
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	yes	no
EC2 Compute Units	6.5	6.5
Instance Storage	1 x 32 SSD	1 x 420 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized	unsupported	unsupported
Encryption	supported	supported
NVMe	unsupported	unsupported
Networking
Networking Performance	Moderate	Moderate
Enhanced Networking	no	no
Max Interfaces	3	4
Max Cards	1	1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	10	15
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	1.68x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)

Per Hour

Linux

Shared Tenancy

On Demand

Geography	Region	m3.large	m2.xlarge
Europe	Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1)	0.1460	0.2750
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	0.1540	0.2750
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	0.1580	0.2870
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	0.1680	0.2930
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	0.1830	0.2960
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	0.1860	0.2960
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	0.1900	0.3230
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	0.1930	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	0.1960	n/a
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	0.1330	0.2450
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	0.1330	0.2450

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