r9g.metal-48xl vs r7a.metal-48xl

Instance Typer9g.metal-48xlr7a.metal-48xl
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
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
metal-48xl – Bare metal
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
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
metal-48xl – Bare metal
vCPUs192192
Memory1536 GiB1536 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton5 ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R14 Processor
Clock Speed3.3 GHz3.7 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr9g.12xlarge, r9g.16xlarge, r9g.24xlarge, r9g.2xlarge, r9g.48xlarge, r9g.4xlarge, r9g.8xlarge, r9g.large, r9g.medium, r9g.metal-48xl, r9g.xlarger7a.12xlarge, r7a.16xlarge, r7a.24xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r7a.32xlarge, r7a.48xlarge, r7a.4xlarge, r7a.8xlarge, r7a.large, r7a.medium, r7a.metal-48xl, r7a.xlarge
Generationsr8g.metal-48xl, r9g.metal-48xlr7a.metal-48xl, r8a.metal-48xl
Variantsr9gd.metal-48xlr7i.metal-48xl
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput72000 MBps40000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth72000 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput9000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance288000 IOPS240000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance288000 IOPS240000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth72000 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput9000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance100 Gigabit50000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces2415
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface6450
IPv6 Addresses per Interface6450
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesyes
EFA Max Interfaces11
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.22x

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