c7gn.4xlarge vs r7a.4xlarge

Instance Typec7gn.4xlarger7a.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
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
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
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R14 Processor
Clock Speed2.6 GHz3.7 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc7gn.12xlarge, c7gn.16xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c7gn.large, c7gn.medium, c7gn.metal, c7gn.xlarger7a.12xlarge, r7a.16xlarge, r7a.24xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r7a.32xlarge, r7a.48xlarge, r7a.4xlarge, r7a.8xlarge, r7a.large, r7a.medium, r7a.metal-48xl, r7a.xlarge
Generationsc6gn.4xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c8gn.4xlarger5a.4xlarge, r6a.4xlarge, r7a.4xlarge, r8a.4xlarge
Variantsc7a.4xlarge, c7g.4xlarge, c7gd.4xlarge, c7i-flex.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarger7g.4xlarge, r7gd.4xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r7iz.4xlarge
ElastiCachecache.c7gn.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth8333 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1041.625 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance33333 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance50 GigabitUp to 12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.20x

Regional Prices

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c7gn.4xlarge
r7a.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.12801.2558
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.18401.2944
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.25921.3621
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a1.3621
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a1.4683
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a1.4683
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.99841.2172
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.99841.2172
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.99841.2172
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