t3a.small vs m4.large

Instance Typet3a.smallm4.large
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
small – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
4 – Generation
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory2 GiB8 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
Generationsm1.large, m3.large, m4.large, m5.large, m6i.large, m7i.large, m8i.large
Variantst3.small
RDSdb.m4.large
OpenSearchm4.large.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.large
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units6.5
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 2085 MBps450 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth175 Mbps450 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput21.875 Mbps56.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance1000 IOPS3600 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance11800 IOPS3600 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2085 Mbps450 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput260.625 Mbps56.25 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 5 GigabitModerate
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces22
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface410
IPv6 Addresses per Interface410
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x5.51x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t3a.small
m4.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.0123n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.01880.1050
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.02200.1260
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.02230.1290
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.02340.1290
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.02360.1590
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.0238n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.0245n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.0302n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.02040.1110
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.02090.1110
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.02120.1160
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.02120.1170
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.02140.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.02160.1230
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.02160.1250
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.02200.1250
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.01880.1000
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.01880.1000
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.1000
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