m8a.4xlarge vs r4.4xlarge
| m8a.4xlarge | r4.4xlarge |
| General purpose | Memory optimized |
| Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 8 – Generation a – AMD processor 4xlarge – 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 4xlarge – Size |
| 16 | 16 |
| 64 GiB | 122 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor | Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) |
| 4.5 GHz | 2.3 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 | r4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarge |
| m5a.4xlarge, m6a.4xlarge, m7a.4xlarge, m8a.4xlarge | r3.4xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r6i.4xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge |
| m8g.4xlarge, m8gb.4xlarge, m8gd.4xlarge, m8gn.4xlarge, m8i-flex.4xlarge, m8i.4xlarge, m8ib.4xlarge, m8id.4xlarge, m8idb.4xlarge, m8idn.4xlarge, m8in.4xlarge, m8ine.4xlarge | |
| db.m8a.4xlarge | db.r4.4xlarge |
| db.r4.4xlarge | |
| r4.4xlarge.search | |
| cache.r4.4xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| 58 | |
| EBS only | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | unsupported |
| up to 10000 MBps | 3000 MBps |
| 5000 Mbps | 3500 Mbps |
| 625 Mbps | 437.5 Mbps |
| 20000 IOPS | 18750 IOPS |
| 40000 IOPS | 18750 IOPS |
| 10000 Mbps | 3500 Mbps |
| 1250 Mbps | 437.5 Mbps |
| Up to 15000 Megabit | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 40 | 30 |
| 40 | 30 |
| yes | yes |
| required | supported |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.16x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | m8a.4xlarge | r4.4xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 1.0853 | 1.0960 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 1.2800 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 1.2800 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 1.2800 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 1.2804 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 2.2400 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 1.0853 | 1.1680 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 1.1664 | 1.1856 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 1.2273 | 1.1856 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 1.2578 | 1.2480 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 1.2480 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 1.2768 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 1.2768 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 1.2800 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.9738 | 1.0640 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.9738 | 1.0640 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.9738 | 1.0640 |