r8a.medium vs m8azn.medium

Instance Typer8a.mediumm8azn.medium
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedGeneral purpose
DetailsHigh-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.

rRAM / memory optimized
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
medium – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

mMulti purpose
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
z – High performance
n – Network and EBS optimized
medium – Size
vCPUs11
Memory8 GiB4 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 ProcessorAMD EPYC 9575F
Clock Speed4.5 GHz5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr8a.12xlarge, r8a.16xlarge, r8a.24xlarge, r8a.2xlarge, r8a.48xlarge, r8a.4xlarge, r8a.8xlarge, r8a.large, r8a.medium, r8a.metal-24xl, r8a.metal-48xl, r8a.xlargem8azn.12xlarge, m8azn.24xlarge, m8azn.3xlarge, m8azn.6xlarge, m8azn.large, m8azn.medium, m8azn.metal-12xl, m8azn.metal-24xl, m8azn.xlarge
Generationsr7a.medium, r8a.medium
Variantsr8g.medium, r8gb.medium, r8gd.medium, r8gn.mediumm8a.medium, m8g.medium, m8gb.medium, m8gd.medium, m8gn.medium
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 15360 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth325 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput40.625 Mbps78.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance2500 IOPS2500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1875 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 15000 MegabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces23
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 Diff1.00x1.30x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
r8a.medium
m8azn.medium
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.08940.1151
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.08940.1237
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.09640.1334
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.0964n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.07990.1032
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.07990.1032
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.07990.1032
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