a1.2xlarge vs r8in.2xlarge
| a1.2xlarge | r8in.2xlarge |
| General purpose | Memory optimized |
| Obsolete. Not recommended for use Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments. a – ARM AWS Graviton Processor 1 – Generation 2xlarge – Size | 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 8 – Generation i – Intel processor n – Network and EBS optimized 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 16 GiB | 64 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) |
| 2.3 GHz | 3.9 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | r8in.12xlarge, r8in.16xlarge, r8in.24xlarge, r8in.2xlarge, r8in.32xlarge, r8in.48xlarge, r8in.4xlarge, r8in.8xlarge, r8in.96xlarge, r8in.large, r8in.xlarge |
| r6in.2xlarge, r8in.2xlarge | |
| r8a.2xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8i-flex.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge, r8id.2xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| EBS only | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 3500 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 1750 Mbps | 2500 Mbps |
| 218.75 Mbps | 312.5 Mbps |
| 10000 IOPS | 12000 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 40 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 30 |
| 15 | 30 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 3.81x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.2xlarge | r8in.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.2040 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.2040 | 0.9379 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.2304 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2328 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2352 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2568 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2664 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.2040 | 0.8368 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.2040 | 0.8368 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.8368 |