t3a.2xlarge vs r5dn.2xlarge

Instance Typet3a.2xlarger5dn.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
3 – Generation
a – AMD processor
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
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed2.2 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest3a.2xlarge, t3a.large, t3a.medium, t3a.micro, t3a.nano, t3a.small, t3a.xlarger5dn.12xlarge, r5dn.16xlarge, r5dn.24xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5dn.4xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5dn.large, r5dn.metal, r5dn.xlarge
Generationsr5dn.2xlarge, r6idn.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge
Variantst3.2xlarger5.2xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesno
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 300 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2780 MBpsup to 2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth695 Mbps2300 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput86.875 Mbps287.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance15700 IOPS18750 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2780 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput347.5 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 5 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.23x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t3a.2xlarge
r5dn.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1971n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.30080.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.35140.8120
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.35710.8160
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.37440.8840
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.3776n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.3802n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.3917n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.4838n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.32640.7440
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.33410.7840
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.33980.7840
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.33980.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.34300.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.34500.8000
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.34560.8040
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.35140.8040
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.30080.6680
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.30080.6680
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.6680
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