m4.2xlarge vs r3.2xlarge

Instance Typem4.2xlarger3.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

mMulti purpose
4 – Generation
2xlarge – 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.

rRAM / memory optimized
3 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.4 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.large, m4.xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarger3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
SageMakerml.m4.2xlarge
RDSdb.m4.2xlargedb.r3.2xlarge
OpenSearchm4.2xlarge.searchr3.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units2626
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 160 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput1000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance8000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1000 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput125 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.69x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
m4.2xlarge
r3.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.42000.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.50401.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.5160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.5160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.6360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.44400.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.44400.7580
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.46400.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.46800.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.48000.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.49200.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.50000.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.50000.8000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.40000.6640
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40000.6650
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.40000.6650
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