m8azn.6xlarge vs r5n.8xlarge

Instance Typem8azn.6xlarger5n.8xlarge
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
6xlarge – 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
5 – Generation
n – Network and EBS optimized
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs2432
Memory96 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9575FIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed5 GHz3.1 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.xlarger5n.12xlarge, r5n.16xlarge, r5n.24xlarge, r5n.2xlarge, r5n.4xlarge, r5n.8xlarge, r5n.large, r5n.metal, r5n.xlarge
Generationsr5n.8xlarge, r6in.8xlarge, r8in.8xlarge
Variantsr5.8xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5ad.8xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5d.8xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput15360 MBps5000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth15000 Mbps6800 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1875 Mbps850 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance60000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth15000 Mbps6800 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1875 Mbps850 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance50 Gigabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface4030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface4030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.03x

Regional Prices

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m8azn.6xlarge
r5n.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.76162.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.8480
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.8480
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.8640
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.8640
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a3.1790
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a3.2320
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a3.7760
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.96802.5440
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.20032.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a2.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a2.7040
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a2.8000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a2.8000
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.8000
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.8480
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.47752.3840
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.47752.3840
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.47752.3840
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