m5a.2xlarge vs r8g.2xlarge

Instance Typem5a.2xlarger8g.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
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
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5a.12xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5a.24xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5a.4xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5a.large, m5a.xlarger8g.12xlarge, r8g.16xlarge, r8g.24xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8g.48xlarge, r8g.4xlarge, r8g.8xlarge, r8g.large, r8g.medium, r8g.metal-24xl, r8g.metal-48xl, r8g.xlarge
Generationsm5a.2xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m8a.2xlarger6g.2xlarge, r7g.2xlarge, r8g.2xlarge
Variantsm5.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarger8a.2xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8i-flex.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge, r8id.2xlarge, r8idb.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge, r8in.2xlarge
SageMakerml.r8g.2xlarge
RDSdb.r8g.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r8g.2xlarge
OpenSearchr8g.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r8g.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1580 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput197.5 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8333 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 15 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 Diff1.00x1.34x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m5a.2xlarge
r8g.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.3303
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.22200.3303
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.34400.4713
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.43200.5271
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.43200.5274
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.43600.5522
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.43600.5535
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.44800.5535
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.55200.5647
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.5648
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.5648
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.5648
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.5685
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.38400.4713
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.5685
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.5685
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.5685
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.5685
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.5685
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.5801
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.5930
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.6248
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.6254
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.6283
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.38400.4832
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.7499
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.40000.4832
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.40400.4948
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.40400.5012
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.40400.5162
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.41600.5162
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.42400.5236
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.3440n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.34400.4713
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