r6a.2xlarge vs m5ad.2xlarge
| r6a.2xlarge | m5ad.2xlarge |
| Memory optimized | General purpose |
| 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 6 – Generation a – AMD processor 2xlarge – Size | Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 5 – Generation a – AMD processor d – Instance store volume 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 64 GiB | 32 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor | AMD EPYC 7571 |
| 3.6 GHz | 2.2 GHz |
| 2 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| r6a.12xlarge, r6a.16xlarge, r6a.24xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r6a.32xlarge, r6a.48xlarge, r6a.4xlarge, r6a.8xlarge, r6a.large, r6a.metal, r6a.xlarge | m5ad.12xlarge, m5ad.16xlarge, m5ad.24xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5ad.4xlarge, m5ad.8xlarge, m5ad.large, m5ad.xlarge |
| r5a.2xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r8a.2xlarge | |
| r6g.2xlarge, r6gd.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r6id.2xlarge, r6idn.2xlarge, r6in.2xlarge | m5.2xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 300 NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 6667 MBps | up to 2120 MBps |
| 2500 Mbps | 1580 Mbps |
| 312.5 Mbps | 197.5 Mbps |
| 12000 IOPS | 8333 IOPS |
| 40000 IOPS | 16000 IOPS |
| 10000 Mbps | 2880 Mbps |
| 1250 Mbps | 360 Mbps |
| Up to 12500 Megabit | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.01x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | r6a.2xlarge | m5ad.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2) | 0.2860 | n/a |
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.2860 | 0.2680 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.4536 | 0.4120 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.5472 | 0.5200 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.5240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.5360 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.6600 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4536 | 0.4600 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.4968 | 0.4600 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.5040 | 0.4800 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.5076 | 0.4840 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.5328 | 0.4880 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.5436 | 0.5000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.5472 | 0.5080 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.5472 | 0.5160 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | n/a | 0.4120 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4536 | 0.4120 |