t2.medium vs r3.large

Instance Typet2.mediumr3.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
2 – Generation
medium – 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
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory4 GiB15.25 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon FamilyIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest2.2xlarge, t2.large, t2.medium, t2.micro, t2.nano, t2.small, t2.xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationst2.medium, t3.medium, t8i.mediumr3.large, r4.large, r5.large, r6i.large, r7i.large, r8i.large
SageMakerml.t2.medium
RDSdb.t2.mediumdb.r3.large
OpenSearcht2.medium.searchr3.large.search
ElastiCachecache.t2.medium
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units6.5
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 32 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupportedunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Networking
Networking PerformanceLow to ModerateModerate
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface610
IPv6 Addresses per Interface610
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.67x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t2.medium
r3.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.04960.1850
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.05840.3500
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.0584n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.0608n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.0608n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.0744n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.05000.1850
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.05120.1900
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.05200.2000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.05280.2000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.05360.2000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.05440.2000
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.05520.2000
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.05760.2000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.04640.1660
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.04640.1660
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.04640.1660
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