db.m2.2xlargevsdb.m3.2xlarge

db.m2.2xlarge is 11% cheaper than db.m3.2xlarge on demand in US East (N. Virginia), saving $62.05 a month. Per vCPU, db.m3.2xlarge costs 44% less.

At a glance	db.m2.2xlarge	db.m3.2xlarge
On-demand	$0.69/hr11% less	$0.775/hr
Size	4 vCPUs, 34.19921875 GiB	8 vCPUs, 30 GiB

Prices in US East (N. Virginia)

“Off” is the discount against each type’s own on-demand price. PostgreSQL, USD per hour.

Option	db.m2.2xlarge	db.m3.2xlarge	db.m3.2xlarge vs db.m2.2xlarge
On-demandPay by the hour	$0.69	$0.775	▲ 12%

Key differences

The biggest lead each one has.

Where db.m2.2xlarge leads

On-demand price$0.69 vs $0.775 per hour

11% cheaper

Memory (GiB)34.199 vs 30

14% higher

Where db.m3.2xlarge leads

Network peak10 Gbps vs 2.8 Gbps

3.6× higher

vCPUs8 vs 4

2× higher

EBS baseline bandwidth1,000 Mbps vs 500 Mbps

2× higher

Specs

25 of 28 specs differ. Those are in bold.

Compute7 of 10 differ	db.m2.2xlarge	db.m3.2xlarge
vCPUs	4	8
Physical cores	4	4
Threads per core	1	2
Architecture	–	x86_64
Processor	–	Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)
CPU maker	Intel	Intel
Clock speed	–	2.5 GHz
Sustained clock	–	2.5 GHz
Processor features	–	Intel AVX; Intel Turbo
Burstable	No	No

Memory1 of 1 differ	db.m2.2xlarge	db.m3.2xlarge
Memory (GiB)	34.199	30

Networking3 of 3 differ	db.m2.2xlarge	db.m3.2xlarge
Network	–	High
Network baseline	0.7 Gbps	1 Gbps
Network peak	2.8 Gbps	10 Gbps

Storage9 of 9 differ	db.m2.2xlarge	db.m3.2xlarge
Storage	–	2 x 80 SSD
Local disks	1 × 850 GB HDD	2 × 80 GB SSD
EBS throughput	–	1000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth	500 Mbps	1,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	500 Mbps	1,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	62.5 MB/s	125 MB/s
EBS max throughput	62.5 MB/s	125 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	4,000	8,000
EBS max IOPS	4,000	8,000

Instance details4 of 4 differ	db.m2.2xlarge	db.m3.2xlarge
Family	m2	m3
Category	–	General purpose
Current generation	–	No
Normalization factor	16	–

Other1 of 1 differ	db.m2.2xlarge	db.m3.2xlarge
Hardware Basis	m2.2xlarge	m3.2xlarge

On-demand prices by region

Cheapest for db.m2.2xlarge first. PostgreSQL, USD per hour.

Region	db.m2.2xlarge	db.m3.2xlarge	Difference
US East (N. Virginia)Used in summaryus-east-1	$0.69	$0.775	▲ 12%
US West (Oregon)us-west-2	$0.69	$0.775	▲ 12%
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)ap-northeast-1	$0.73	$0.97	▲ 33%
US West (N. California)us-west-1	$0.75	$0.835	▲ 11%
EU (Ireland)eu-west-1	$0.754	$0.831	▲ 10%
AWS GovCloud (US-West)us-gov-west-1	$0.79	$0.89	▲ 13%
Asia Pacific (Singapore)ap-southeast-1	$0.795	$1.00	▲ 26%
Asia Pacific (Sydney)ap-southeast-2	$0.795	$1.00	▲ 26%
South America (Sao Paulo)sa-east-1	$0.845	$0.98	▲ 16%

Keep exploring

Each type’s own page, and how it compares with others.

db.m2.2xlargem2 family

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db.m3.2xlargeGeneral purpose, m3 family

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AWS RDS PostgreSQL prices in USD. Monthly figures use 730 hours. Prices last updated 12 Nov 2026.