t2.medium vs m3.large

Instance Typet2.mediumm3.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
2 – Generation
medium – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
3 – Generation
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory4 GiB7.5 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon FamilyIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest2.2xlarge, t2.large, t2.medium, t2.micro, t2.nano, t2.small, t2.xlargem3.2xlarge, m3.large, m3.medium, m3.xlarge
Generationst2.medium, t3.medium, t8i.mediumm1.large, m3.large, m4.large, m5.large, m6i.large, m7i.large, m8i.large
SageMakerml.t2.medium
RDSdb.t2.mediumdb.m3.large
OpenSearcht2.medium.searchm3.large.search
ElastiCachecache.t2.medium
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units6.5
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 32 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupportedunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Networking
Networking PerformanceLow to ModerateModerate
Enhanced Networkingnono
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface610
IPv6 Addresses per Interface6
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportunsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.06x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t2.medium
m3.large
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a0.1460
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.04960.1540
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.0584n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.0584n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.0608n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.0608n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.0744n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.05000.1580
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.05120.1680
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.05200.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.05280.1860
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.05360.1900
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.05440.1930
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.05520.1960
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.0576n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.0464n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.04640.1330
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.04640.1330
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