t3.2xlarge vs m5.2xlarge

Instance Typet3.2xlargem5.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
3 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Skylake E5 2686 v5Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed2.5 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest3.2xlarge, t3.large, t3.medium, t3.micro, t3.nano, t3.small, t3.xlargem5.12xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m5.24xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m5.4xlarge, m5.8xlarge, m5.large, m5.metal, m5.xlarge
Generationst2.2xlarge, t3.2xlargem2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge
Variantst3a.2xlargem5a.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge
SageMakerml.t3.2xlargeml.m5.2xlarge
RDSdb.t3.2xlargedb.m5.2xlarge
OpenSearchm5.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m5.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units37
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2780 MBpsup to 2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth695 Mbps2300 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput86.875 Mbps287.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance15700 IOPS18750 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2780 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput347.5 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 5 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.16x

Regional Prices

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Geography
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t3.2xlarge
m5.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.34560.4040
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.37760.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.38020.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.38020.4490
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HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.38340.4710
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.38400.4710
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.39040.4720
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.39040.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.39170.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.39680.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.34940.4040
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HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.40130.4840
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.41600.4840
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.42240.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.42240.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.42240.5060
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.42240.5080
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.42240.5280
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.43390.6120
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.4352n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.35840.4080
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.4352n/a
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HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.4672n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.5376n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.35840.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.36480.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.36480.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.37120.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.37120.4440
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.37760.4480
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.33280.3840
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.33280.3840
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.33280.3840
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