t2.2xlarge vs r5a.2xlarge
| t2.2xlarge | r5a.2xlarge |
| General purpose | Memory optimized |
| Websites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps. t – Burstable performance 2 – 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 5 – Generation a – AMD processor 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 32 GiB | 64 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Xeon Family | AMD EPYC 7571 |
| 2.3 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| t2.2xlarge, t2.large, t2.medium, t2.micro, t2.nano, t2.small, t2.xlarge | r5a.12xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5a.24xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5a.large, r5a.xlarge |
| t2.2xlarge, t3.2xlarge | r5a.2xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r8a.2xlarge |
| r5.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge | |
| ml.t2.2xlarge | |
| db.t2.2xlarge | |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| yes | yes |
| EBS only | EBS only |
| unsupported | default |
| supported | supported |
| unsupported | required |
| up to 2120 MBps | |
| 1580 Mbps | |
| 197.5 Mbps | |
| 8333 IOPS | |
| 16000 IOPS | |
| 2880 Mbps | |
| 360 Mbps | |
| Moderate | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| no | yes |
| 3 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| unsupported | required |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.18x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t2.2xlarge | r5a.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | n/a | 0.2860 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.3968 | 0.4520 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.4672 | 0.5440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.4672 | 0.5440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.4864 | 0.5440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.4864 | 0.5480 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.5952 | 0.5480 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 0.7240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4032 | 0.4960 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.4096 | 0.5040 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.4224 | 0.5080 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.4224 | 0.5320 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.4288 | 0.5320 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.4352 | 0.5320 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.4416 | 0.5440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.4608 | 0.5440 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.3712 | 0.4520 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.3712 | 0.4520 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.3712 | n/a |