m8a.2xlarge vs r4.2xlarge

Instance Typem8a.2xlarger4.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – 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
4 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed4.5 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8a.12xlarge, m8a.16xlarge, m8a.24xlarge, m8a.2xlarge, m8a.48xlarge, m8a.4xlarge, m8a.8xlarge, m8a.large, m8a.medium, m8a.metal-24xl, m8a.metal-48xl, m8a.xlarger4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarge
Generationsm5a.2xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m8a.2xlarger3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
Variantsm8g.2xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8i-flex.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8ib.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge, m8idb.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge, m8ine.2xlarge
RDSdb.m8a.2xlargedb.r4.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.2xlarge
OpenSearchr4.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBps1600 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 15000 MegabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface4015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface4015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.17x

Regional Prices

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m8a.2xlarge
r4.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.51220.5480
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.6402
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.51220.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.54260.5928
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.54260.5928
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.58320.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.61360.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.62890.6384
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.6384
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.6400
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.48690.5320
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.48690.5320
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.48690.5320
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