m8i.2xlarge vs r7i.2xlarge

Instance Typem8i.2xlarger7i.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
2xlarge – 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
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)
Clock Speed3.9 GHz3.2 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8i.12xlarge, m8i.16xlarge, m8i.24xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8i.32xlarge, m8i.48xlarge, m8i.4xlarge, m8i.8xlarge, m8i.96xlarge, m8i.large, m8i.metal-48xl, m8i.metal-96xl, m8i.xlarger7i.12xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r7i.24xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r7i.48xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r7i.large, r7i.metal-24xl, r7i.metal-48xl, r7i.xlarge
Generationsm6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarger6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
Variantsm8a.2xlarge, m8g.2xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8i-flex.2xlarge, m8ib.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge, m8idb.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge, m8ine.2xlarger7a.2xlarge, r7g.2xlarge, r7gd.2xlarge, r7iz.2xlarge
SageMakerml.r7i.2xlarge
RDSdb.m8i.2xlargedb.r7i.2xlarge, db.r7i.2xlarge.tpc2.mem4x, db.r7i.2xlarge.tpc2.mem8x
OpenSearchr7i.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 15000 MegabitUp to 12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.21x

Regional Prices

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m8i.2xlarge
r7i.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.44540.5426
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.50720.5922
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.52040.5922
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.52920.6216
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.52920.6216
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.53360.6216
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.53360.6342
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.54680.6342
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.55570.6342
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.56010.6342
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.67470.6384
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.44540.5426
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.6384
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.6384
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.6384
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.6384
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.6384
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.6659
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.8442
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.44980.5460
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47190.5460
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.47190.5557
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.47190.5628
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.48950.5746
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.49390.5796
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.49390.5880
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.42340.5292
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.42340.5292
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.42340.5292
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