r5.metal vs x8g.metal-24xl

Instance Typer5.metalx8g.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
In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
metal-24xl – Bare metal
vCPUs9696
Memory768 GiB1536 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.1 GHz2.8 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.xlargex8g.12xlarge, x8g.16xlarge, x8g.24xlarge, x8g.2xlarge, x8g.48xlarge, x8g.4xlarge, x8g.8xlarge, x8g.large, x8g.medium, x8g.metal-24xl, x8g.metal-48xl, x8g.xlarge
Generationsr5.metal, r6i.metal
Variantsr5b.metal, r5d.metal, r5dn.metal, r5n.metalx8aedz.metal-24xl
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units347
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput19000 MBps30720 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 Gigabit40 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.50x

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r5.metal
x8g.metal-24xl
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)6.240010.6781
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)6.240011.2320
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)6.432011.2550
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)6.624013.1088
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)6.6240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)6.7200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)6.7680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)6.7680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)7.1040n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)6.04809.3792
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)6.04809.3792
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)6.04809.3792
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