m5dn.2xlarge vs r7a.2xlarge
| m5dn.2xlarge | r7a.2xlarge |
| General purpose | Memory optimized |
| Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 5 – Generation d – Instance store volume n – Network and EBS optimized 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 7 – Generation a – AMD processor 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 32 GiB | 64 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake) | AMD EPYC 9R14 Processor |
| 3.1 GHz | 3.7 GHz |
| 2 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| m5dn.12xlarge, m5dn.16xlarge, m5dn.24xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5dn.4xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge, m5dn.large, m5dn.metal, m5dn.xlarge | r7a.12xlarge, r7a.16xlarge, r7a.24xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r7a.32xlarge, r7a.48xlarge, r7a.4xlarge, r7a.8xlarge, r7a.large, r7a.medium, r7a.metal-48xl, r7a.xlarge |
| m5dn.2xlarge, m6idn.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge | r5a.2xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r8a.2xlarge |
| m5.2xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge | r7g.2xlarge, r7gd.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r7iz.2xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| 1 x 300 NVMe SSD | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 3500 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 2300 Mbps | 2500 Mbps |
| 287.5 Mbps | 312.5 Mbps |
| 12000 IOPS | 12000 IOPS |
| 18750 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 4750 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 593.75 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 25 Gigabit | Up to 12500 Megabit |
| no | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.05x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | m5dn.2xlarge | r7a.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.6080 | 0.6279 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.6480 | 0.6472 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.6680 | 0.6810 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.6840 | 0.6810 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.6840 | 0.7342 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.7000 | 0.7342 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.5440 | 0.6086 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.5440 | 0.6086 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.5440 | 0.6086 |