m8gd.4xlarge vs r8a.4xlarge
| m8gd.4xlarge | r8a.4xlarge |
| General purpose | Memory optimized |
| Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 8 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor d – Instance store volume 4xlarge – 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 a – AMD processor 4xlarge – Size |
| 16 | 16 |
| 64 GiB | 128 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton4 Processor | AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor |
| 2.8 GHz | 4.5 GHz |
| 1 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| m8gd.12xlarge, m8gd.16xlarge, m8gd.24xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gd.48xlarge, m8gd.4xlarge, m8gd.8xlarge, m8gd.large, m8gd.medium, m8gd.metal-24xl, m8gd.metal-48xl, m8gd.xlarge | r8a.12xlarge, r8a.16xlarge, r8a.24xlarge, r8a.2xlarge, r8a.48xlarge, r8a.4xlarge, r8a.8xlarge, r8a.large, r8a.medium, r8a.metal-24xl, r8a.metal-48xl, r8a.xlarge |
| m6gd.4xlarge, m7gd.4xlarge, m8gd.4xlarge | r5a.4xlarge, r6a.4xlarge, r7a.4xlarge, r8a.4xlarge |
| m8a.4xlarge, m8g.4xlarge, m8gb.4xlarge, m8gn.4xlarge, m8i-flex.4xlarge, m8i.4xlarge, m8ib.4xlarge, m8id.4xlarge, m8idb.4xlarge, m8idn.4xlarge, m8in.4xlarge, m8ine.4xlarge | r8g.4xlarge, r8gb.4xlarge, r8gd.4xlarge, r8gn.4xlarge, r8i-flex.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge, r8ib.4xlarge, r8id.4xlarge, r8idb.4xlarge, r8idn.4xlarge, r8in.4xlarge |
| db.m8gd.4xlarge | db.r8a.4xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| 1 x 950 NVMe SSD | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 10240 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 5000 Mbps | 5000 Mbps |
| 625 Mbps | 625 Mbps |
| 20000 IOPS | 20000 IOPS |
| 40000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 10000 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 1250 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 15 Gigabit | Up to 15000 Megabit |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 40 |
| 30 | 40 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.31x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | m8gd.4xlarge | r8a.4xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.9786 | 1.4302 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 1.0288 | 1.4302 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 1.0288 | 1.5418 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 1.0288 | 1.5418 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 1.0696 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 1.1104 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 1.1594 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 1.1920 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 1.4696 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.9226 | 1.2781 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.9226 | 1.2781 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.9226 | 1.2781 |