t3a.2xlarge vs r8a.2xlarge
| t3a.2xlarge | r8a.2xlarge |
| General purpose | Memory optimized |
| Websites / 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 8 – Generation a – AMD processor 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 32 GiB | 64 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC 7571 | AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor |
| 2.2 GHz | 4.5 GHz |
| 2 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| t3a.2xlarge, t3a.large, t3a.medium, t3a.micro, t3a.nano, t3a.small, t3a.xlarge | r8a.12xlarge, r8a.16xlarge, r8a.24xlarge, r8a.2xlarge, r8a.48xlarge, r8a.4xlarge, r8a.8xlarge, r8a.large, r8a.medium, r8a.metal-24xl, r8a.metal-48xl, r8a.xlarge |
| r5a.2xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r8a.2xlarge | |
| t3.2xlarge | r8g.2xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8i-flex.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge, r8id.2xlarge, r8idb.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge, r8in.2xlarge |
| db.r8a.2xlarge | |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| yes | yes |
| EBS only | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 2780 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 695 Mbps | 2500 Mbps |
| 86.875 Mbps | 312.5 Mbps |
| 4000 IOPS | 12000 IOPS |
| 15700 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 2780 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 347.5 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 5 Gigabit | Up to 15000 Megabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 40 |
| 15 | 40 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 2.03x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t3a.2xlarge | r8a.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.1971 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.3008 | 0.7151 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.3514 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.3571 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.3744 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.3776 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.3802 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.3917 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.4838 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.3264 | 0.7151 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.3341 | 0.7709 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.3398 | 0.7709 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.3398 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.3430 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.3450 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.3456 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.3514 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.3008 | 0.6390 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.3008 | 0.6390 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.6390 |