m6a.2xlarge vs r5b.2xlarge
| m6a.2xlarge | r5b.2xlarge |
| General purpose | Memory optimized |
| Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 6 – Generation a – AMD processor 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 5 – Generation b – EBS optimized 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 32 GiB | 64 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor | Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake) |
| 3.6 GHz | 3.1 GHz |
| 2 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| m6a.12xlarge, m6a.16xlarge, m6a.24xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m6a.32xlarge, m6a.48xlarge, m6a.4xlarge, m6a.8xlarge, m6a.large, m6a.metal, m6a.xlarge | r5b.12xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5b.24xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5b.4xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5b.large, r5b.metal, r5b.xlarge |
| m5a.2xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m8a.2xlarge | r5b.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge |
| m6g.2xlarge, m6gd.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m6id.2xlarge, m6idn.2xlarge, m6in.2xlarge | r5.2xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge |
| db.r5b.2xlarge, db.r5b.2xlarge.tpc1.mem2x, db.r5b.2xlarge.tpc2.mem4x, db.r5b.2xlarge.tpc2.mem8x | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| EBS only | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 6667 MBps | up to 128000 MBps |
| 2500 Mbps | 5000 Mbps |
| 312.5 Mbps | 625 Mbps |
| 12000 IOPS | 21667 IOPS |
| 40000 IOPS | 43333 IOPS |
| 10000 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 1250 Mbps | 1250 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 | 1.80x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | m6a.2xlarge | r5b.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2) | 0.2222 | n/a |
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.2222 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.3456 | 0.6318 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.4320 | 0.7240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.4320 | 0.9480 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.4464 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.5508 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.3456 | 0.6520 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.3852 | 0.6680 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.3852 | 0.7000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.3996 | 0.7000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.4032 | 0.7120 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.4032 | 0.7120 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.4032 | 0.7120 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.4140 | 0.7240 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | n/a | 0.5960 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.3456 | 0.5960 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.5960 |