r4.8xlarge vs m8azn.6xlarge

Instance Typer4.8xlargem8azn.6xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedGeneral purpose
DetailsObsolete. 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
8xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
z – High performance
n – Network and EBS optimized
6xlarge – Size
vCPUs3224
Memory244 GiB96 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AMD EPYC 9575F
Clock Speed2.3 GHz5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlargem8azn.12xlarge, m8azn.24xlarge, m8azn.3xlarge, m8azn.6xlarge, m8azn.large, m8azn.medium, m8azn.metal-12xl, m8azn.metal-24xl, m8azn.xlarge
Generationsr3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarge
RDSdb.r4.8xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.8xlarge
OpenSearchr4.8xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput6000 MBps15360 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7000 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput875 Mbps1875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance37500 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance37500 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7000 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput875 Mbps1875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit50 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3040
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3040
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.08x

Regional Prices

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Geography
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r4.8xlarge
m8azn.6xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.19202.7616
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.5600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.5600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.5600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.5608n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)4.4800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.33602.9680
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.37123.2003
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.3712n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.4960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.4960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.5536n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.5536n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.5600n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.12802.4775
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.12802.4775
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.12802.4775
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