t3a.xlarge vs m7gd.xlarge
| t3a.xlarge | m7gd.xlarge |
| General purpose | General purpose |
| Websites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps. t – Burstable performance 3 – Generation a – AMD processor xlarge – Size | Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 7 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor d – Instance store volume xlarge – Size |
| 4 | 4 |
| 16 GiB | 16 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| AMD EPYC 7571 | AWS Graviton3 Processor |
| 2.2 GHz | 2.6 GHz |
| 2 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| t3a.2xlarge, t3a.large, t3a.medium, t3a.micro, t3a.nano, t3a.small, t3a.xlarge | m7gd.12xlarge, m7gd.16xlarge, m7gd.2xlarge, m7gd.4xlarge, m7gd.8xlarge, m7gd.large, m7gd.medium, m7gd.metal, m7gd.xlarge |
| m6gd.xlarge, m7gd.xlarge, m8gd.xlarge, m9gd.xlarge | |
| t3.xlarge | m7a.xlarge, m7g.xlarge, m7i-flex.xlarge, m7i.xlarge |
| ml.m7gd.xlarge | |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| yes | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 237 NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 2780 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 695 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| 86.875 Mbps | 156.25039999999998 Mbps |
| 4000 IOPS | 6000 IOPS |
| 15700 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 2780 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 347.5 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 5 Gigabit | Up to 12500 Megabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.42x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t3a.xlarge | m7gd.xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.0986 | 0.1420 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1504 | 0.2136 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.1757 | 0.2514 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.1786 | 0.2570 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.1872 | 0.2620 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.1888 | 0.2627 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.1901 | 0.2665 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.1958 | 0.2684 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.2419 | 0.2759 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 0.2818 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | n/a | 0.3402 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1632 | 0.2242 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.1670 | 0.2265 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.1699 | 0.2265 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.1699 | 0.2268 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.1715 | 0.2381 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.1725 | 0.2381 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.1728 | 0.2484 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.1757 | 0.2495 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.1504 | 0.2136 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.1504 | 0.2136 |
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