m8a.large vs r5d.large

Instance Typem8a.larger5d.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

mMulti purpose
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
large – 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.

rRAM / memory optimized
5 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory8 GiB16 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.large, m6a.large, m7a.large, m8a.larger5d.large, r6id.large, r8id.large
Variantsm8azn.large, m8g.large, m8gb.large, m8gd.large, m8gn.large, m8i-flex.large, m8i.large, m8ib.large, m8id.large, m8idb.large, m8idn.large, m8in.large, m8ine.larger5.large, r5a.large, r5ad.large, r5b.large, r5dn.large, r5n.large
SageMakerml.r5d.large
RDSdb.m8a.largedb.r5d.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units10
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 75 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth650 Mbps650 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput81.25 Mbps81.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3600 IOPS3600 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 Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface2010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface2010
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.24x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m8a.large
r5d.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.13570.1510
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.1690
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.1690
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.1730
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.1730
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.1730
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.1730
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.1740
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.1740
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.1740
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.1740
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.13570.1510
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.1740
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.1740
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.1750
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.1900
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.1900
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.2280
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.14580.1520
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.15340.1580
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.15720.1600
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.1600
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.1620
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.1680
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.1680
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.12170.1440
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.12170.1440
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.12170.1440
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