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r5.xlarge vs r4.xlarge

Instance Typer5.xlarger4.xlarge
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
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
4 – Generation
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory32 GiB30.5 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz2.3 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.xlarger4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarge
Generationsr3.xlarge, r4.xlarge, r5.xlarge, r6i.xlarge, r7i.xlarge, r8i.xlarger3.xlarge, r4.xlarge, r5.xlarge, r6i.xlarge, r7i.xlarge, r8i.xlarge
Variantsr5a.xlarge, r5ad.xlarge, r5b.xlarge, r5d.xlarge, r5dn.xlarge, r5n.xlarge
SageMakerml.r5.xlarge
RDSdb.r5.xlarge, db.r5.xlarge.tpc2.mem2x, db.r5.xlarge.tpc2.mem4xdb.r4.xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r5.xlargedb.r4.xlarge
OpenSearchr5.xlarge.searchr4.xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r5.xlargecache.r4.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units1916
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 4750 MBps800 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1150 Mbps850 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput143.75 Mbps106.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance18750 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps850 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps106.25 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.07x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
r5.xlarge
r4.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.26000.2740
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.29600.3200
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.29600.3200
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.29600.3200
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.30200.3201
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.30200.5600
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.3020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.3020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.3040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.3040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.3040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.26000.2920
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.3040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.3040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.3040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.3100n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.3100n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.3340n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.3340n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.3360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.4020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.26800.2964
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.27600.2964
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.27600.3120
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.28000.3120
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.28200.3192
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.28200.3192
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.29600.3200
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.25200.2660
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.25200.2660
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.25200.2660
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