h1.8xlarge vs r5a.8xlarge

Instance Typeh1.8xlarger5a.8xlarge
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
8xlarge – 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
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AMD EPYC 7571
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlarger5a.12xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5a.24xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5a.large, r5a.xlarge
Generationsr5a.8xlarge, r6a.8xlarge, r7a.8xlarge, r8a.8xlarge
Variantsr5.8xlarge, r5ad.8xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5d.8xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5n.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance Storage4 x 2000 HDDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7000 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput875 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7000 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput875 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.07x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
h1.8xlarge
r5a.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a1.1440
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.07601.8080
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a1.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a2.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a2.0320
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a2.1280
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a2.1280
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a2.1280
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.1760
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.87201.8080
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.87201.8080
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.8720n/a
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