h1.2xlarge vs r3.2xlarge

Instance Typeh1.2xlarger3.2xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsAmazon EMR workloads, distributed file systems (HDFS, MapR-FS), network file systems, log/data processing apps (like Apache Kafka), and big data clusters.

h – HDD / hard disk throughput optimized
1 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
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
3 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsr3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
RDSdb.r3.2xlarge
OpenSearchr3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units3126
Instance Storage1 x 2000 HDD1 x 160 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1750 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput218.75 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.67x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
h1.2xlarge
r3.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.51900.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.7580
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.8000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.46800.6640
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.46800.6650
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.46800.6650
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