m8a.2xlarge vs r5d.2xlarge

Instance Typem8a.2xlarger5d.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – 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
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed4.5 GHz3.1 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.xlarger5d.12xlarge, r5d.16xlarge, r5d.24xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5d.4xlarge, r5d.8xlarge, r5d.large, r5d.metal, r5d.xlarge
Generationsm5a.2xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m8a.2xlarger5d.2xlarge, r6id.2xlarge, r8id.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.2xlarger5.2xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge
SageMakerml.r5d.2xlarge
RDSdb.m8a.2xlargedb.r5d.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units37
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 300 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps2300 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps287.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS18750 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps593.75 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 Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.24x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
m8a.2xlarge
r5d.2xlarge
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HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.6960
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HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.7000
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.7040
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.7040
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.7600
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.7610
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.9120
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.58320.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.61360.6320
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.62890.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.6720
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.48690.5760
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.48690.5760
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.48690.5760
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