hpc7g.8xlarge vs r3.8xlarge

Instance Typehpc7g.8xlarger3.8xlarge
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
g – AWS Graviton processor
8xlarge – 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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.6 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizeshpc7g.16xlarge, hpc7g.4xlarge, hpc7g.8xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsr3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarge
RDSdb.r3.8xlarge
OpenSearchr3.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units104
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 320 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput87 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth87 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput10.875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance11000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2085 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput260.625 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance200 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces48
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportyesno
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.68x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
hpc7g.8xlarge
r3.8xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)1.8059n/a
USGovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1)2.0262n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.11172.9640
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a5.5970
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a2.9640
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a3.0320
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a3.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a3.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a3.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a3.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a3.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a3.2010
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a2.6560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.68322.6600
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.6600
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