t2.medium vs m5a.large

Instance Typet2.mediumm5a.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
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory4 GiB8 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon FamilyAMD EPYC 7571
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest2.2xlarge, t2.large, t2.medium, t2.micro, t2.nano, t2.small, t2.xlargem5a.12xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5a.24xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5a.4xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5a.large, m5a.xlarge
Generationst2.medium, t3.mediumm5a.large, m6a.large, m7a.large, m8a.large
Variantsm5.large, m5ad.large, m5d.large, m5dn.large, m5n.large, m5zn.large
SageMakerml.t2.medium
RDSdb.t2.medium
OpenSearcht2.medium.search
ElastiCachecache.t2.medium
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth650 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput81.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3600 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceLow to ModerateUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface610
IPv6 Addresses per Interface610
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.83x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t2.medium
m5a.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a0.0560
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.04960.0860
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.05840.1080
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.05840.1080
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.06080.1090
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.06080.1090
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.07440.1120
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.1380
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.05000.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.05120.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.05200.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.05280.1010
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.05360.1010
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.05440.1010
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.05520.1040
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.05760.1060
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.04640.0860
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.04640.0860
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.0464n/a
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