r7a.16xlarge vs r5b.16xlarge

Instance Typer7a.16xlarger5b.16xlarge
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
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
16xlarge – 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
b – EBS optimized
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory512 GiB512 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R14 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed3.7 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr7a.12xlarge, r7a.16xlarge, r7a.24xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r7a.32xlarge, r7a.48xlarge, r7a.4xlarge, r7a.8xlarge, r7a.large, r7a.medium, r7a.metal-48xl, r7a.xlarger5b.12xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5b.24xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5b.4xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5b.large, r5b.metal, r5b.xlarge
Generationsr5a.16xlarge, r6a.16xlarge, r7a.16xlarge, r8a.16xlarger5b.16xlarge, r8ib.16xlarge
Variantsr7g.16xlarge, r7gd.16xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r7iz.16xlarger5.16xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5ad.16xlarge, r5d.16xlarge, r5dn.16xlarge, r5n.16xlarge
RDSdb.r5b.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput20000 MBps40960 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth20000 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2500 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS173333 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS173333 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth20000 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2500 Mbps5000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25000 Megabit20 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.05x

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r7a.16xlarge
r5b.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)5.02345.0541
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a5.7920
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a7.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)5.17765.2160
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)5.44835.3440
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)5.44835.6000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)5.87335.6000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)5.87335.6960
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a5.6960
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a5.6960
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a5.7920
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.86884.7680
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.86884.7680
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.86884.7680
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