r4.2xlarge vs m6in.2xlarge

Instance Typer4.2xlargem6in.2xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedGeneral purpose
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
4 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
6 – Generation
i – Intel processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory61 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlargem6in.12xlarge, m6in.16xlarge, m6in.24xlarge, m6in.2xlarge, m6in.32xlarge, m6in.4xlarge, m6in.8xlarge, m6in.large, m6in.metal, m6in.xlarge
Generationsr3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlargem6in.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge
Variantsm6a.2xlarge, m6g.2xlarge, m6gd.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m6id.2xlarge, m6idn.2xlarge
RDSdb.r4.2xlargedb.m6in.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.2xlarge
OpenSearchr4.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1600 MBpsup to 25000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1700 Mbps6250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput212.5 Mbps781.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS25000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS100000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1700 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput212.5 Mbps3125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 40000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.03x

Regional Prices

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Per Hour
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Geography
Region
r4.2xlarge
m6in.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.54800.5803
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.64000.6739
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.64000.6833
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.64000.6973
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.64020.7020
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.12000.7160
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.7338
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.8876
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.58400.5859
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.59280.5920
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.59280.6207
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.62400.6207
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.62400.6224
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.63840.6439
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.63840.6498
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.64000.6599
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.53200.5569
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.53200.5569
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.53200.5569
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