m5a.4xlarge vs r3.4xlarge

Instance Typem5a.4xlarger3.4xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
4xlarge – 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
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory64 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5a.12xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5a.24xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5a.4xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5a.large, m5a.xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsm5a.4xlarge, m6a.4xlarge, m7a.4xlarge, m8a.4xlarger3.4xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r6i.4xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge
Variantsm5.4xlarge, m5ad.4xlarge, m5d.4xlarge, m5dn.4xlarge, m5n.4xlarge
RDSdb.r3.4xlarge
OpenSearchr3.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units52
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 320 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2880 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput360 Mbps250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 Mbps250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.00x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m5a.4xlarge
r3.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.68801.4820
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.86402.7990
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.8640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.8720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.8720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.8960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.1040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.76801.4820
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.76801.5160
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.80001.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.80801.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.80801.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.80801.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.83201.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.84801.6000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.68801.3280
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.68801.3300
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.3300
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