t2.medium vs m4.large

Instance Typet2.mediumm4.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
2 – Generation
medium – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
4 – Generation
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory4 GiB8 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon FamilyIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest2.2xlarge, t2.large, t2.medium, t2.micro, t2.nano, t2.small, t2.xlargem4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.large, m4.xlarge
Generationst2.medium, t3.medium, t8i.mediumm1.large, m3.large, m4.large, m5.large, m6i.large, m7i.large, m8i.large
SageMakerml.t2.medium
RDSdb.t2.mediumdb.m4.large
OpenSearcht2.medium.searchm4.large.search
ElastiCachecache.t2.mediumcache.m4.large
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units6.5
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput450 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth450 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput56.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3600 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance3600 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth450 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput56.25 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceLow to ModerateModerate
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces32
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface610
IPv6 Addresses per Interface610
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.17x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t2.medium
m4.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.04960.1050
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.05840.1260
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.05840.1290
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.06080.1290
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.06080.1590
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.0744n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.05000.1110
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.05120.1110
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.05200.1160
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.05280.1170
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.05360.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.05440.1230
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.05520.1250
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.05760.1250
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.04640.1000
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.04640.1000
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.04640.1000
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