t4g.2xlarge vs m5ad.2xlarge
| t4g.2xlarge | m5ad.2xlarge |
| General purpose | General purpose |
| Websites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps. t – Burstable performance 4 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor 2xlarge – Size | Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 5 – Generation a – AMD processor d – Instance store volume 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 32 GiB | 32 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton2 Processor | AMD EPYC 7571 |
| 2.5 GHz | 2.2 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| t4g.2xlarge, t4g.large, t4g.medium, t4g.micro, t4g.nano, t4g.small, t4g.xlarge | m5ad.12xlarge, m5ad.16xlarge, m5ad.24xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5ad.4xlarge, m5ad.8xlarge, m5ad.large, m5ad.xlarge |
| m5.2xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge | |
| db.t4g.2xlarge | |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| yes | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 300 NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 2780 MBps | up to 2120 MBps |
| 695 Mbps | 1580 Mbps |
| 86.875 Mbps | 197.5 Mbps |
| 4000 IOPS | 8333 IOPS |
| 15700 IOPS | 16000 IOPS |
| 2780 Mbps | 2880 Mbps |
| 347.5 Mbps | 360 Mbps |
| Up to 5 Gigabit | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| no | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.54x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t4g.2xlarge | m5ad.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2) | 0.1792 | n/a |
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.1792 | 0.2680 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.2688 | 0.4120 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.3008 | 0.5200 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.3053 | 0.5240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.3053 | 0.5360 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.3072 | 0.6600 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.3072 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.3091 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.3110 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.3136 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.3136 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.3200 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.2688 | 0.4600 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.3213 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.3264 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.3328 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.3379 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.3392 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.3392 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.3392 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.3392 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.3456 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.3469 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2752 | 0.4600 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.3482 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.3565 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.3712 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.4288 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2822 | 0.4800 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2944 | 0.4840 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2944 | 0.4880 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.2944 | 0.5000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.2944 | 0.5080 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.3008 | 0.5160 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | n/a | 0.4120 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.2688 | 0.4120 |
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