t3a.large vs r4.large
| t3a.large | r4.large |
| General purpose | Memory optimized |
| Websites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps. t – Burstable performance 3 – Generation a – AMD processor large – 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 4 – Generation large – Size |
| 2 | 2 |
| 8 GiB | 15.25 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC 7571 | Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) |
| 2.2 GHz | 2.3 GHz |
| 2 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| t3a.2xlarge, t3a.large, t3a.medium, t3a.micro, t3a.nano, t3a.small, t3a.xlarge | r4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarge |
| r3.large, r4.large, r5.large, r6i.large, r7i.large, r8i.large | |
| t3.large | |
| db.r4.large | |
| db.r4.large | |
| r4.large.search | |
| cache.r4.large | |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | |
| EBS only | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | unsupported |
| up to 2780 MBps | 400 MBps |
| 695 Mbps | 425 Mbps |
| 86.875 Mbps | 53.125 Mbps |
| 4000 IOPS | 3000 IOPS |
| 15700 IOPS | 3000 IOPS |
| 2780 Mbps | 425 Mbps |
| 347.5 Mbps | 53.125 Mbps |
| Up to 5 Gigabit | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 3 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 12 | 10 |
| 12 | 10 |
| yes | yes |
| required | supported |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.84x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t3a.large | r4.large |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.0493 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0752 | 0.1370 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.0878 | 0.1600 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.0893 | 0.1600 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.0936 | 0.1600 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.0944 | 0.1601 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.0950 | 0.2800 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.0979 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.1210 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.0816 | 0.1460 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.0835 | 0.1482 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.0850 | 0.1482 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.0850 | 0.1560 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.0858 | 0.1560 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.0862 | 0.1596 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.0864 | 0.1596 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.0878 | 0.1600 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.0752 | 0.1330 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.0752 | 0.1330 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.1330 |