m8a.metal-24xl vs r8a.metal-24xl

Instance Typem8a.metal-24xlr8a.metal-24xl
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
metal-24xl – Bare metal
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
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
metal-24xl – Bare metal
vCPUs9696
Memory384 GiB768 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 Processor
Clock Speed4.5 GHz4.5 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.xlarger8a.12xlarge, r8a.16xlarge, r8a.24xlarge, r8a.2xlarge, r8a.48xlarge, r8a.4xlarge, r8a.8xlarge, r8a.large, r8a.medium, r8a.metal-24xl, r8a.metal-48xl, r8a.xlarge
Variantsm8azn.metal-24xl, m8g.metal-24xl, m8gb.metal-24xl, m8gd.metal-24xl, m8gn.metal-24xlr8g.metal-24xl, r8gb.metal-24xl, r8gd.metal-24xl, r8gn.metal-24xl
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput30000 MBps30000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth30000 Mbps30000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput3750 Mbps3750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance120000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance120000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth30000 Mbps30000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput3750 Mbps3750 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance40000 Megabit40000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1616
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface6464
IPv6 Addresses per Interface6464
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.29x

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m8a.metal-24xl
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USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)5.84267.6685
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)5.84267.6685
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)5.84267.6685
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