m5a.2xlarge vs m4.2xlarge

Instance Typem5a.2xlargem4.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
2xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
4 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5a.12xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5a.24xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5a.4xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5a.large, m5a.xlargem4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.large, m4.xlarge
Generationsm5a.2xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m8a.2xlargem2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge
Variantsm5.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge
SageMakerml.m4.2xlarge
RDSdb.m4.2xlarge
OpenSearchm4.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units26
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBps1000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1580 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput197.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8333 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.18x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m5a.2xlarge
m4.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2220n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.34400.4200
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.43200.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.43200.5160
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.43600.5160
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.43600.6360
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.4480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.5520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.38400.4440
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.38400.4440
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.40000.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.40400.4680
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.40400.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.40400.4920
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.41600.5000
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.42400.5000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.34400.4000
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.34400.4000
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.4000
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