m8a.2xlarge vs r5dn.2xlarge
| m8a.2xlarge | r5dn.2xlarge |
| General purpose | Memory optimized |
| Small 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 n – Network and EBS optimized 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 32 GiB | 64 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor | Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake) |
| 4.5 GHz | 3.1 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| m8a.12xlarge, m8a.16xlarge, m8a.24xlarge, m8a.2xlarge, m8a.48xlarge, m8a.4xlarge, m8a.8xlarge, m8a.large, m8a.medium, m8a.metal-24xl, m8a.metal-48xl, m8a.xlarge | r5dn.12xlarge, r5dn.16xlarge, r5dn.24xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5dn.4xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5dn.large, r5dn.metal, r5dn.xlarge |
| m5a.2xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m8a.2xlarge | r5dn.2xlarge, r6idn.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge |
| m8g.2xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8i-flex.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8ib.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge, m8idb.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge, m8ine.2xlarge | r5.2xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge |
| db.m8a.2xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| EBS only | 1 x 300 NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 10000 MBps | up to 2120 MBps |
| 2500 Mbps | 2300 Mbps |
| 312.5 Mbps | 287.5 Mbps |
| 12000 IOPS | 12000 IOPS |
| 40000 IOPS | 18750 IOPS |
| 10000 Mbps | 4750 Mbps |
| 1250 Mbps | 593.75 Mbps |
| Up to 15000 Megabit | Up to 25 Gigabit |
| yes | no |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 40 | 15 |
| 40 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.41x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | m8a.2xlarge | r5dn.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.5426 | 0.7080 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.8120 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.8160 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.8840 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.5426 | 0.7440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.5832 | 0.7840 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.6136 | 0.7840 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.6289 | 0.7960 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 0.7960 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.8000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.8040 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.8040 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.4869 | 0.6680 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4869 | 0.6680 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.4869 | 0.6680 |