r5a.2xlarge vs m8ib.2xlarge
| r5a.2xlarge | m8ib.2xlarge |
| Memory optimized | General purpose |
| 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 5 – Generation a – AMD processor 2xlarge – Size | Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 8 – Generation i – Intel processor b – EBS optimized 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 64 GiB | 32 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC 7571 | Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) |
| 2.5 GHz | 3.9 GHz |
| 2 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| r5a.12xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5a.24xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5a.large, r5a.xlarge | m8ib.12xlarge, m8ib.16xlarge, m8ib.24xlarge, m8ib.2xlarge, m8ib.32xlarge, m8ib.48xlarge, m8ib.4xlarge, m8ib.8xlarge, m8ib.96xlarge, m8ib.large, m8ib.xlarge |
| r5a.2xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r8a.2xlarge | |
| r5.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge | m8a.2xlarge, m8g.2xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8i-flex.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge, m8ine.2xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| EBS only | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 2120 MBps | up to 25000 MBps |
| 1580 Mbps | 6250 Mbps |
| 197.5 Mbps | 781.25 Mbps |
| 8333 IOPS | 30000 IOPS |
| 16000 IOPS | 120000 IOPS |
| 2880 Mbps | 25000 Mbps |
| 360 Mbps | 3125 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 26.66 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 30 |
| 15 | 30 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.34x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | r5a.2xlarge | m8ib.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.2860 | n/a |
| Europe | Europe (Spain) (eu-south-2) | n/a | 0.7449 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.4520 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.5440 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.5440 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.5440 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.5480 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.5480 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.7240 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4960 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.5040 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.5080 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.5320 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.5320 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.5320 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.5440 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.5440 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.4520 | n/a |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4520 | 0.6683 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.6683 |