m4.large vs r3.large

Instance Typem4.larger3.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
4 – Generation
large – 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
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory8 GiB15.25 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
Generationsm1.large, m3.large, m4.large, m5.large, m6i.large, m7i.large, m8i.larger3.large, r4.large, r5.large, r6i.large, r7i.large, r8i.large
RDSdb.m4.largedb.r3.large
OpenSearchm4.large.searchr3.large.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units6.56.5
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 32 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput450 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth450 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput56.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3600 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance3600 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth450 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput56.25 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateModerate
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces23
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.69x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m4.large
r3.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.10500.1850
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.12600.3500
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.1290n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.1290n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.1590n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.11100.1850
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.11100.1900
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.11600.2000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.11700.2000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.12000.2000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.12300.2000
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.12500.2000
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.12500.2000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.10000.1660
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.10000.1660
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.10000.1660
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