m8gb.4xlarge vs r3.4xlarge
| m8gb.4xlarge | r3.4xlarge |
| General purpose | Memory optimized |
| Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 8 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor b – EBS optimized 4xlarge – 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 |
| 16 | 16 |
| 64 GiB | 122 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton4 Processor | Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge) |
| 2.8 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| m8gb.12xlarge, m8gb.16xlarge, m8gb.24xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gb.48xlarge, m8gb.4xlarge, m8gb.8xlarge, m8gb.large, m8gb.medium, m8gb.metal-24xl, m8gb.metal-48xl, m8gb.xlarge | r3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge |
| r3.4xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r6i.4xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge | |
| m8a.4xlarge, m8g.4xlarge, m8gd.4xlarge, m8gn.4xlarge, m8i-flex.4xlarge, m8i.4xlarge, m8ib.4xlarge, m8id.4xlarge, m8idb.4xlarge, m8idn.4xlarge, m8in.4xlarge, m8ine.4xlarge | |
| db.r3.4xlarge | |
| r3.4xlarge.search | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| 52 | |
| EBS only | 1 x 320 SSD |
| default | supported |
| supported | supported |
| required | unsupported |
| 25000 MBps | |
| 25000 Mbps | 2000 Mbps |
| 3125 Mbps | 250 Mbps |
| 120000 IOPS | 16000 IOPS |
| 120000 IOPS | 16000 IOPS |
| 25000 Mbps | 2000 Mbps |
| 3125 Mbps | 250 Mbps |
| 33.333 Gigabit | High |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 30 |
| 30 | 30 |
| yes | yes |
| required | unsupported |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| yes | no |
| 1.00x | 1.33x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | m8gb.4xlarge | r3.4xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1) | 1.3010 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 1.4820 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 2.7990 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 1.4820 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 1.5160 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 1.5960 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 1.5960 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 1.5960 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 1.5960 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 1.5960 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 1.6000 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | n/a | 1.3280 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 1.1640 | 1.3300 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 1.1640 | 1.3300 |