r7a.medium vs r9gd.medium

Instance Typer7a.mediumr9gd.medium
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
medium – 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
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
medium – Size
vCPUs11
Memory8 GiB8 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R14 ProcessorAWS Graviton5 Processor
Clock Speed3.7 GHz3.3 GHz
Threads Per Core11
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.xlarger9gd.12xlarge, r9gd.16xlarge, r9gd.24xlarge, r9gd.2xlarge, r9gd.48xlarge, r9gd.4xlarge, r9gd.8xlarge, r9gd.large, r9gd.medium, r9gd.metal-48xl, r9gd.xlarge
Generationsr7a.medium, r8a.mediumr6gd.medium, r7gd.medium, r8gd.medium, r9gd.medium
Variantsr7g.medium, r7gd.mediumr9g.medium
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 59 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 12000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth325 Mbps380 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput40.625 Mbps47.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance2500 IOPS2500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS48000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps12000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1500 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12500 MegabitUp to 15 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces22
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface420
IPv6 Addresses per Interface420
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.02x

Regional Prices

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r7a.medium
r9gd.medium
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.07850.0962
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.0809n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.0851n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.0851n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.0918n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.0918n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.07610.0801
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.07610.0801
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.07610.0801
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