m8azn.3xlarge vs r3.4xlarge

Instance Typem8azn.3xlarger3.4xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
z – High performance
n – Network and EBS optimized
3xlarge – 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
3 – Generation
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1216
Memory48 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9575FIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8azn.12xlarge, m8azn.24xlarge, m8azn.3xlarge, m8azn.6xlarge, m8azn.large, m8azn.medium, m8azn.metal-12xl, m8azn.metal-24xl, m8azn.xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsr3.4xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r6i.4xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge
RDSdb.r3.4xlarge
OpenSearchr3.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units52
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 320 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 15360 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7500 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput937.5 Mbps250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth15000 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1875 Mbps250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 50 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface4030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface4030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.18x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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Geography
Region
m8azn.3xlarge
r3.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.38081.4820
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.7990
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.48401.4820
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.60011.5160
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a1.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a1.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a1.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a1.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a1.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.6000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.23881.3280
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.23881.3300
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.23881.3300
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