m8a.medium vs r7a.medium

Instance Typem8a.mediumr7a.medium
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
medium – 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
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
medium – Size
vCPUs11
Memory4 GiB8 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R14 Processor
Clock Speed4.5 GHz3.7 GHz
Threads Per Core11
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.xlarger7a.12xlarge, r7a.16xlarge, r7a.24xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r7a.32xlarge, r7a.48xlarge, r7a.4xlarge, r7a.8xlarge, r7a.large, r7a.medium, r7a.metal-48xl, r7a.xlarge
Generationsm7a.medium, m8a.mediumr7a.medium, r8a.medium
Variantsm8azn.medium, m8g.medium, m8gb.medium, m8gd.medium, m8gn.mediumr7g.medium, r7gd.medium
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth325 Mbps325 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput40.625 Mbps40.625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance2500 IOPS2500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 15000 MegabitUp to 12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces22
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface44
IPv6 Addresses per Interface44
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.22x

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m8a.medium
r7a.medium
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HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.06400.0809
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HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.06780.0851
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HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.07670.0918
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USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.06090.0761
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.06090.0761
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.06090.0761
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