m7g.8xlarge vs r3.8xlarge

Instance Typem7g.8xlarger3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
8xlarge – 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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.6 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm7g.12xlarge, m7g.16xlarge, m7g.2xlarge, m7g.4xlarge, m7g.8xlarge, m7g.large, m7g.medium, m7g.metal, m7g.xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsm6g.8xlarge, m7g.8xlarge, m8g.8xlarge, m9g.8xlarger3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarge
Variantsm7a.8xlarge, m7gd.8xlarge, m7i-flex.8xlarge, m7i.8xlarge
SageMakerml.m7g.8xlarge
RDSdb.m7g.8xlargedb.r3.8xlarge
OpenSearchm7g.8xlarge.searchr3.8xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m7g.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units104
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 320 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance15 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.09x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m7g.8xlarge
r3.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.9331n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.9331n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.30562.9640
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.50985.5970
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.5178n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.5232n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.5232n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.5280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.5642n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)1.6007n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)1.6048n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)1.6320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)1.6320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.30562.9640
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)1.6320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)1.6320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)1.6448n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)1.6454n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)1.6864n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)1.6864n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)1.7136n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)1.7204n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)1.7274n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)1.7952n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.37093.0320
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)1.7952n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)2.0808n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.38723.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.38723.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.38723.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.45443.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.45523.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.45543.2010
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a2.6560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.30562.6600
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.6600
Activate subscription to see all regions and unlock all features  

Related Comparisons

Other instances worth weighing against these.