m3.xlarge vs r3.xlarge

Instance Typem3.xlarger3.xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
3 – Generation
xlarge – 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
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory15 GiB30.5 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm3.2xlarge, m3.large, m3.medium, m3.xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsm1.xlarge, m2.xlarge, m3.xlarge, m4.xlarge, m5.xlarge, m6i.xlarge, m7i.xlarge, m8i.xlarger3.xlarge, r4.xlarge, r5.xlarge, r6i.xlarge, r7i.xlarge, r8i.xlarge
RDSdb.m3.xlargedb.r3.xlarge
OpenSearchm3.xlarge.searchr3.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units1313
Instance Storage2 x 40 SSD1 x 80 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupportedsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth500 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput62.5 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance4000 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth500 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput62.5 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighModerate
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportunsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.20x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m3.xlarge
r3.xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)0.2930n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.30800.3710
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.7000
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.31500.3710
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.33600.3790
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.36600.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.37200.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.38100.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.38500.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.39200.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.4000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.3320
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.26600.3330
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.26600.3330
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