r5a.8xlarge vs i2.8xlarge

Instance Typer5a.8xlargei2.8xlarge
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
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
8xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
2 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory256 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5a.12xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5a.24xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5a.large, r5a.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsr5a.8xlarge, r6a.8xlarge, r7a.8xlarge, r8a.8xlargei2.8xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarge
Variantsr5.8xlarge, r5ad.8xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5d.8xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5n.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units104
Instance StorageEBS only8 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps1500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth4750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput593.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.71x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r5a.8xlarge
i2.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.1440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.80807.5020
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.1760n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.1760n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.1760n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.1920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.1920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.8960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.98407.5020
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.01607.7330
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.03208.0040
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.12808.0040
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.12808.1020
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.12808.1400
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.17608.1400
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.17608.1840
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.80806.8200
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.80806.8200
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a6.8200
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