m5d.8xlarge vs r5d.8xlarge

Instance Typem5d.8xlarger5d.8xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
8xlarge – 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
5 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed3.1 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5d.12xlarge, m5d.16xlarge, m5d.24xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5d.4xlarge, m5d.8xlarge, m5d.large, m5d.metal, m5d.xlarger5d.12xlarge, r5d.16xlarge, r5d.24xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5d.4xlarge, r5d.8xlarge, r5d.large, r5d.metal, r5d.xlarge
Generationsm5d.8xlarge, m6id.8xlarge, m8id.8xlarger5d.8xlarge, r6id.8xlarge, r8id.8xlarge
Variantsm5.8xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5ad.8xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge, m5n.8xlarger5.8xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5ad.8xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5n.8xlarge
SageMakerml.m5d.8xlargeml.r5d.8xlarge
RDSdb.m5d.8xlargedb.r5d.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units128128
Instance Storage2 x 600 NVMe SSD2 x 600 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput5000 MBps5000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth6800 Mbps6800 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput850 Mbps850 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance30000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth6800 Mbps6800 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput850 Mbps850 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.25x

Regional Prices

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Geography
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m5d.8xlarge
r5d.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.92002.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.11202.7040
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.11702.7040
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.12802.7680
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.17602.7680
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.21802.7680
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.21802.7680
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.22402.7840
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.25602.7840
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.25602.7840
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.27202.7840
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.95202.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)2.27202.7840
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)2.28802.7840
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)2.28802.8000
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)2.33602.8160
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)2.33602.8160
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)2.39403.0400
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)2.40003.0450
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)2.48003.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)2.8800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.95202.4320
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.01602.5280
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.01602.5600
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.01602.5600
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.01602.5920
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.09602.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.11202.6880
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.80802.3040
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.80802.3040
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.80802.3040
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