r9gd.8xlarge vs d3en.8xlarge

Instance Typer9gd.8xlarged3en.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
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
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
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory256 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton5 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed3.3 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr9gd.12xlarge, r9gd.16xlarge, r9gd.24xlarge, r9gd.2xlarge, r9gd.48xlarge, r9gd.4xlarge, r9gd.8xlarge, r9gd.large, r9gd.medium, r9gd.metal-48xl, r9gd.xlarged3en.12xlarge, d3en.2xlarge, d3en.4xlarge, d3en.6xlarge, d3en.8xlarge, d3en.xlarge
Generationsr6gd.8xlarge, r7gd.8xlarge, r8gd.8xlarge, r9gd.8xlarge
Variantsr9g.8xlarged3.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage1 x 1900 NVMe SSD16 x 14000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput12000 MBps5000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth12000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1500 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance48000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance48000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth12000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1500 Mbps625 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance17 Gigabit50 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces104
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5020
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5020
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.90x

Regional Prices

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r9gd.8xlarge
d3en.8xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a5.1310
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.07945.2717
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a5.2717
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a5.2717
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a5.5415
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a6.0984
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.5629n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.56294.2058
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.56294.2058
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