r4.2xlarge vs r8gb.2xlarge

Instance Typer4.2xlarger8gb.2xlarge
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
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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory61 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarger8gb.12xlarge, r8gb.16xlarge, r8gb.24xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gb.48xlarge, r8gb.4xlarge, r8gb.8xlarge, r8gb.large, r8gb.medium, r8gb.metal-24xl, r8gb.metal-48xl, r8gb.xlarge
Generationsr3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
Variantsr8a.2xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8i-flex.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge, r8id.2xlarge, r8idb.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge, r8in.2xlarge
RDSdb.r4.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.2xlarge
OpenSearchr4.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1600 MBpsup to 25000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1700 Mbps12500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput212.5 Mbps1562.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1700 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput212.5 Mbps3125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 33.333 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.15x

Regional Prices

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r4.2xlarge
r8gb.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.5480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.6400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.6400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.6400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.6402n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.1200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.5840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.5928n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.5928n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.6240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.6240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.6384n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.6384n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.6400n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.5320n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.53200.7287
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.53200.7287
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