m3.2xlarge vs r8gb.2xlarge

Instance Typem3.2xlarger8gb.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
3 – Generation
2xlarge – 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
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory30 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm3.2xlarge, m3.large, m3.medium, m3.xlarger8gb.12xlarge, r8gb.16xlarge, r8gb.24xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gb.48xlarge, r8gb.4xlarge, r8gb.8xlarge, r8gb.large, r8gb.medium, r8gb.metal-24xl, r8gb.metal-48xl, r8gb.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge
Variantsr8a.2xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8i-flex.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge, r8id.2xlarge, r8idb.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge, r8in.2xlarge
RDSdb.m3.2xlarge
OpenSearchm3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units26
Instance Storage2 x 80 SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1000 MBpsup to 25000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps12500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps1562.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance8000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1000 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput125 Mbps3125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 33.333 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.09x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m3.2xlarge
r8gb.2xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)0.5850n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.6160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.6320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.6720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.7320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.7450n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.7610n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.7700n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.7840n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.53200.7287
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.53200.7287
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