r5.8xlarge vs r3.8xlarge

Instance Typer5.8xlarger3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsHigh-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
8xlarge – 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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory256 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5.12xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r5.24xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r5.large, r5.metal, r5.xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsr3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarger3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarge
Variantsr5a.8xlarge, r5ad.8xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5d.8xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5n.8xlarge
SageMakerml.r5.8xlarge
RDSdb.r5.8xlarge, db.r5.8xlarge.tpc2.mem3xdb.r3.8xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r5.8xlarge
OpenSearchr3.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units128104
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 320 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput6800 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth6800 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput850 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth6800 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput850 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.35x

Regional Prices

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r5.8xlarge
r3.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.08002.9640
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.36805.5970
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.3680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.3690n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.4160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.4160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.4160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.4160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.4320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.4320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.4320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.08002.9640
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)2.4320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)2.4320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)2.4320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)2.4820n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)2.4820n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)2.6720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)2.6750n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)2.6880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)3.2160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.14403.0320
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.20803.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.20803.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.24003.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.25603.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.25603.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.36803.2010
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.01602.6560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.01602.6600
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.01602.6600
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