m8g.16xlarge vs r8g.16xlarge

Instance Typem8g.16xlarger8g.16xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
16xlarge – 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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory256 GiB512 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8g.12xlarge, m8g.16xlarge, m8g.24xlarge, m8g.2xlarge, m8g.48xlarge, m8g.4xlarge, m8g.8xlarge, m8g.large, m8g.medium, m8g.metal-24xl, m8g.metal-48xl, m8g.xlarger8g.12xlarge, r8g.16xlarge, r8g.24xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8g.48xlarge, r8g.4xlarge, r8g.8xlarge, r8g.large, r8g.medium, r8g.metal-24xl, r8g.metal-48xl, r8g.xlarge
Generationsm6g.16xlarge, m7g.16xlarge, m8g.16xlarge, m9g.16xlarger6g.16xlarge, r7g.16xlarge, r8g.16xlarge
Variantsm8a.16xlarge, m8gb.16xlarge, m8gd.16xlarge, m8gn.16xlarge, m8i-flex.16xlarge, m8i.16xlarge, m8ib.16xlarge, m8id.16xlarge, m8idb.16xlarge, m8idn.16xlarge, m8in.16xlarger8a.16xlarge, r8gb.16xlarge, r8gd.16xlarge, r8gn.16xlarge, r8i-flex.16xlarge, r8i.16xlarge, r8ib.16xlarge, r8id.16xlarge, r8idb.16xlarge, r8idn.16xlarge, r8in.16xlarge
SageMakerml.m8g.16xlargeml.r8g.16xlarge
RDSdb.m8g.16xlargedb.r8g.16xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r8g.16xlarge
OpenSearchm8g.16xlarge.searchr8g.16xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m8g.16xlargecache.r8g.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput20000 MBps20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth20000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2500 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth20000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2500 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance30 Gigabit30 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.29x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m8g.16xlarge
r8g.16xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)2.05312.6426
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)2.05312.6426
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.87233.7702
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.20194.2170
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.32164.2189
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.33894.4179
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.35104.4282
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.35104.4282
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)3.35104.5179
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)3.44134.5184
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)3.52134.5184
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)3.53094.5184
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)3.59044.5478
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.87233.7702
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.59044.5478
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.59044.5478
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.59044.5478
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.61864.5478
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.61984.5478
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.71014.6406
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.71014.7443
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)3.78504.9984
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)3.80035.0029
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)3.94945.0266
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.01573.8656
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)3.94945.9994
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)4.5779n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.05223.8656
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.05223.9584
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.05224.0093
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.19944.1293
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.20134.1293
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.20194.1888
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.87233.7702
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