r5dn.8xlarge vs d3.8xlarge

Instance Typer5dn.8xlarged3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsHigh-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
5 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
8xlarge – Size
Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehousing, MapReduce/Hadoop computing, distributed/file network systems, and log/data-processing applications.

d – Disk / storage optimized
3 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory256 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5dn.12xlarge, r5dn.16xlarge, r5dn.24xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5dn.4xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5dn.large, r5dn.metal, r5dn.xlarged3.2xlarge, d3.4xlarge, d3.8xlarge, d3.xlarge
Generationsr5dn.8xlarge, r6idn.8xlarge, r8idn.8xlarged2.8xlarge, d3.8xlarge
Variantsr5.8xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5ad.8xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5d.8xlarge, r5n.8xlarged3en.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage2 x 600 NVMe SSD24 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput5000 MBps5000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth6800 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput850 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance30000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth6800 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput850 Mbps625 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces83
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3020
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3020
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.57x

Regional Prices

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r5dn.8xlarge
d3.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.83204.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.24805.2645
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.26405.7910
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.53605.7934
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.97604.4011
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.13604.7878
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.13604.8745
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.18405.0081
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.18405.0081
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.20005.1182
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.21605.1182
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.21605.1182
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.67203.9955
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.67203.9955
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.67203.9955
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