m5a.4xlarge vs m4.4xlarge

Instance Typem5a.4xlargem4.4xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
4xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
4 – Generation
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory64 GiB64 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.4xlarge, m6a.4xlarge, m7a.4xlarge, m8a.4xlargem2.4xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m5.4xlarge, m6i.4xlarge, m7i.4xlarge, m8i.4xlarge
Variantsm5.4xlarge, m5ad.4xlarge, m5d.4xlarge, m5dn.4xlarge, m5n.4xlarge
SageMakerml.m4.4xlarge
RDSdb.m4.4xlarge
OpenSearchm4.4xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units53.5
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput2120 MBps2000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2880 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput360 Mbps250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 Mbps250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
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.4xlarge
m4.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.68800.8400
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.86401.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.86401.0320
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.87201.0320
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.87201.2720
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.8960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.1040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.76800.8880
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.76800.8880
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.80000.9280
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.80800.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.80800.9600
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.80800.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.83201.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.84801.0000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.68800.8000
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.68800.8000
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.8000
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