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r4.xlarge vs r3.xlarge

Instance Typer4.xlarger3.xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsObsolete. 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
4 – Generation
xlarge – 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
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory30.5 GiB30.5 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsr3.xlarge, r4.xlarge, r5.xlarge, r6i.xlarge, r7i.xlarge, r8i.xlarger3.xlarge, r4.xlarge, r5.xlarge, r6i.xlarge, r7i.xlarge, r8i.xlarge
RDSdb.r4.xlargedb.r3.xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.xlarge
OpenSearchr4.xlarge.searchr3.xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.xlargecache.r3.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units1613
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 80 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput800 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth850 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput106.25 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance6000 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth850 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput106.25 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitModerate
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.27x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
r4.xlarge
r3.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.27400.3710
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.32000.7000
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.3200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.3200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.3201n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.5600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.29200.3710
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.29640.3790
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.29640.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.31200.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.31200.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.31920.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.31920.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.32000.4000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.26600.3320
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.26600.3330
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.26600.3330
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