m7a.2xlarge vs r3.2xlarge

Instance Typem7a.2xlarger3.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
2xlarge – 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
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R14 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed3.7 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm7a.12xlarge, m7a.16xlarge, m7a.24xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m7a.32xlarge, m7a.48xlarge, m7a.4xlarge, m7a.8xlarge, m7a.large, m7a.medium, m7a.metal-48xl, m7a.xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsm5a.2xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m8a.2xlarger3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
Variantsm7g.2xlarge, m7gd.2xlarge, m7i-flex.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge
RDSdb.r3.2xlarge
OpenSearchr3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units26
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 160 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12500 MegabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.55x

Regional Prices

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m7a.2xlarge
r3.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.49260.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.51680.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.51680.7580
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.53610.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.55540.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.57960.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.59890.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.8000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.46370.6640
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.46370.6650
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.46370.6650
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