t2.xlarge vs m4.xlarge

Instance Typet2.xlargem4.xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

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

m – Multi purpose
4 – Generation
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory16 GiB16 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.xlarge, t3.xlargem1.xlarge, m2.xlarge, m3.xlarge, m4.xlarge, m5.xlarge, m6i.xlarge, m7i.xlarge, m8i.xlarge
SageMakerml.t2.xlargeml.m4.xlarge
RDSdb.t2.xlargedb.m4.xlarge
OpenSearchm4.xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units13
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput93.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput93.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateHigh
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces34
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.08x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t2.xlarge
m4.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.19840.2100
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.23360.2520
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.23360.2580
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.24320.2580
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.24320.3180
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.2976n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.20160.2220
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.20480.2220
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.21120.2320
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.21120.2340
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.21440.2400
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.21760.2460
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.22080.2500
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.23040.2500
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.18560.2000
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.18560.2000
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.18560.2000
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