m5.2xlarge vs r8gb.2xlarge

Instance Typem5.2xlarger8gb.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – 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
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.1 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5.12xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m5.24xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m5.4xlarge, m5.8xlarge, m5.large, m5.metal, m5.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
Variantsm5a.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarger8a.2xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8i-flex.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge, r8id.2xlarge, r8in.2xlarge
SageMakerml.m5.2xlarge
RDSdb.m5.2xlarge
OpenSearchm5.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m5.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units37
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBpsup to 25000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2300 Mbps12500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput287.5 Mbps1562.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance18750 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps3125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 33.333 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.59x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
m5.2xlarge
r8gb.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.4040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.4480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.4480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.4490n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.4600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.4710n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.4710n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.4720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.4800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.4800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.4800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.4040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.4800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.4840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.4840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.4960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.4960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.5060n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.5080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.5280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.6120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.4080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.4280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.4280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.4280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.4280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.4440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.4480n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.3840n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.38400.7287
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.38400.7287
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