r5.metal vs r8a.metal-24xl

Instance Typer5.metalr8a.metal-24xl
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
metal – Bare metal
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
a – AMD processor
metal-24xl – Bare metal
vCPUs9696
Memory768 GiB768 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor
Clock Speed3.1 GHz4.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5.12xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r5.24xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r5.large, r5.metal, r5.xlarger8a.12xlarge, r8a.16xlarge, r8a.24xlarge, r8a.2xlarge, r8a.48xlarge, r8a.4xlarge, r8a.8xlarge, r8a.large, r8a.medium, r8a.metal-24xl, r8a.metal-48xl, r8a.xlarge
Generationsr5.metal, r6i.metal
Variantsr5b.metal, r5d.metal, r5dn.metal, r5n.metalr8g.metal-24xl, r8gb.metal-24xl, r8gd.metal-24xl, r8gn.metal-24xl
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units347
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput19000 MBps30000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth19000 Mbps30000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2375 Mbps3750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth19000 Mbps30000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2375 Mbps3750 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit40000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1516
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5064
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5064
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.18x

Regional Prices

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r5.metal
r8a.metal-24xl
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)6.24008.3256
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)7.1040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)7.1040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)7.1060n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)7.2480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)7.2480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)7.2480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)7.2480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)7.2960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)7.2960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)7.2960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)6.24008.3986
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)7.2960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)7.2960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)7.2960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)7.4450n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)7.4450n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)8.0160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)8.0260n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)8.0640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)9.6480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)6.43208.5810
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)6.62408.5810
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)6.62409.2506
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)6.72009.2506
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)6.7680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)6.7680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)7.1040n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)6.04807.6685
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)6.04807.6685
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)6.04807.6685
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