m5a.8xlarge vs r3.8xlarge

Instance Typem5a.8xlarger3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
8xlarge – 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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB244 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.8xlarge, m6a.8xlarge, m7a.8xlarge, m8a.8xlarger3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarge
Variantsm5.8xlarge, m5ad.8xlarge, m5d.8xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge, m5n.8xlarge
RDSdb.r3.8xlarge
OpenSearchr3.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units104
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 320 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth4750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput593.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit10 Gigabit
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.8xlarge
r3.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.8890n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.37602.9640
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.72805.5970
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.7280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.7440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.7440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.7920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.2080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.53602.9640
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.53603.0320
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.60003.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.61603.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.61603.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.61603.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.66403.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.69603.2010
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.37602.6560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.37602.6600
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.6600
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