m4.2xlarge vs m7i.2xlarge

Instance Typem4.2xlargem7i.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
4 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)
Clock Speed2.4 GHz3.2 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.large, m4.xlargem7i.12xlarge, m7i.16xlarge, m7i.24xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m7i.48xlarge, m7i.4xlarge, m7i.8xlarge, m7i.large, m7i.metal-24xl, m7i.metal-48xl, m7i.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlargem6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge
Variantsm7a.2xlarge, m7g.2xlarge, m7gd.2xlarge, m7i-flex.2xlarge
SageMakerml.m4.2xlargeml.m7i.2xlarge
RDSdb.m4.2xlargedb.m7i.2xlarge
OpenSearchm4.2xlarge.searchm7i.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units26
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1000 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance8000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput125 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.01x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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Region
m4.2xlarge
m7i.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.42000.4234
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.50400.4662
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.51600.4687
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.51600.4704
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.63600.4704
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.4704
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.4719
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.4830
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.4944
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.4956
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.44400.4242
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.5082
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.5082
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.5208
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.5208
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.5292
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.5313
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.5334
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.44400.4242
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.5544
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.6426
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.46400.4284
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.46800.4284
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.48000.4284
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.49200.4494
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.50000.4494
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.50000.4494
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.40000.4032
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40000.4032
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.40000.4032
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