c5n.4xlarge vs r8a.4xlarge

Instance Typec5n.4xlarger8a.4xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsHigh-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

c – Compute optimized
5 – Generation
n – Network and EBS optimized
4xlarge – 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
a – AMD processor
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory42 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8124MAMD EPYC 9R45 Processor
Clock Speed3.4 GHz4.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc5n.18xlarge, c5n.2xlarge, c5n.4xlarge, c5n.9xlarge, c5n.large, c5n.metal, c5n.xlarger8a.12xlarge, r8a.16xlarge, r8a.24xlarge, r8a.2xlarge, r8a.48xlarge, r8a.4xlarge, r8a.8xlarge, r8a.large, r8a.medium, r8a.metal-24xl, r8a.metal-48xl, r8a.xlarge
Generationsc5n.4xlarge, c6in.4xlarge, c8in.4xlarger5a.4xlarge, r6a.4xlarge, r7a.4xlarge, r8a.4xlarge
Variantsc5.4xlarge, c5a.4xlarge, c5ad.4xlarge, c5d.4xlarger8g.4xlarge, r8gb.4xlarge, r8gd.4xlarge, r8gn.4xlarge, r8i-flex.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge, r8ib.4xlarge, r8id.4xlarge, r8idb.4xlarge, r8idn.4xlarge, r8in.4xlarge
SageMakerml.c5n.4xlarge
RDSdb.r8a.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units73
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth4750 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput593.75 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 25 GigabitUp to 15000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3040
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3040
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.37x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5n.4xlarge
r8a.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.8640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.86401.3876
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.0240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.0320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.0400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.0400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.0720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.0800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)1.0880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)1.0880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)1.1280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)1.1440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.92801.3998
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)1.1620n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)1.3280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.94401.4302
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.97601.4302
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.97601.5418
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.98401.5418
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.9920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.9920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.0240n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.86401.2781
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.86401.2781
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.2781
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