t3a.2xlarge vs m4.2xlarge

Instance Typet3a.2xlargem4.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
3 – 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 Speed2.2 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest3a.2xlarge, t3a.large, t3a.medium, t3a.micro, t3a.nano, t3a.small, t3a.xlargem4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.large, m4.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge
Variantst3.2xlarge
SageMakerml.m4.2xlarge
RDSdb.m4.2xlarge
OpenSearchm4.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units26
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 2780 MBps1000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth695 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput86.875 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance15700 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2780 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput347.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 5 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 Diff1.00x1.38x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t3a.2xlarge
m4.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1971n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.30080.4200
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.35140.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.35710.5160
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.37440.5160
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.37760.6360
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.3802n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.3917n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.4838n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.32640.4440
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.33410.4440
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.33980.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.33980.4680
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.34300.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.34500.4920
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.34560.5000
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.35140.5000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.30080.4000
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.30080.4000
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.4000
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