hpc7a.48xlarge vs r8a.24xlarge

Instance Typehpc7a.48xlarger8a.24xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsHigh-performance computing (HPC), computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, seismic analysis, reservoir simulation, risk analysis, and weather modeling.

hpc – High performance computing (HPC) / high disk throughput
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
48xlarge – 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
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
24xlarge – Size
vCPUs9696
Memory768 GiB768 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R14 ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 Processor
Clock Speed3.7 GHz4.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizeshpc7a.12xlarge, hpc7a.24xlarge, hpc7a.48xlarge, hpc7a.96xlarger8a.12xlarge, r8a.16xlarge, r8a.24xlarge, r8a.2xlarge, r8a.48xlarge, r8a.4xlarge, r8a.8xlarge, r8a.large, r8a.medium, r8a.metal-24xl, r8a.metal-48xl, r8a.xlarge
Generationshpc6a.48xlarge, hpc7a.48xlarger5a.24xlarge, r6a.24xlarge, r7a.24xlarge, r8a.24xlarge
Variantsr8g.24xlarge, r8gb.24xlarge, r8gd.24xlarge, r8gn.24xlarge, r8i.24xlarge, r8ib.24xlarge, r8id.24xlarge, r8idb.24xlarge, r8idn.24xlarge, r8in.24xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput87 MBps30000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth87 Mbps30000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput10.875 Mbps3750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance500 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance11000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2085 Mbps30000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput260.625 Mbps3750 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance300 Gigabit40000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces416
Max Cards21
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5064
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5064
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesno
EFA Max Interfaces2
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.03x

Regional Prices

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Geography
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hpc7a.48xlarge
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EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)7.7252n/a
EuropeEurope (Stockholm) (eu-north-1)7.7252n/a
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USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)7.20007.6685
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a7.6685
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a7.6685
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