m4.2xlarge vs r6idn.2xlarge

Instance Typem4.2xlarger6idn.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
4 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
6 – Generation
i – Intel processor
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed2.4 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.large, m4.xlarger6idn.12xlarge, r6idn.16xlarge, r6idn.24xlarge, r6idn.2xlarge, r6idn.32xlarge, r6idn.4xlarge, r6idn.8xlarge, r6idn.large, r6idn.metal, r6idn.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarger6idn.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge
Variantsr6a.2xlarge, r6g.2xlarge, r6gd.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r6id.2xlarge, r6in.2xlarge
SageMakerml.m4.2xlarge
RDSdb.m4.2xlargedb.r6idn.2xlarge
OpenSearchm4.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units26
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 474 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1000 MBpsup to 25000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps6250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps781.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS25000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance8000 IOPS100000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1000 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput125 Mbps3125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 40000 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 Diff1.00x1.85x

Regional Prices

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m4.2xlarge
r6idn.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.42000.8284
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.5040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.5160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.5160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.6360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.44400.8597
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.44400.8705
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.46400.9173
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.46800.9313
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.48000.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.49200.9407
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.50000.9500
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.50000.9547
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.40000.7816
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40000.7816
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.40000.7816
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