t3a.2xlarge vs r8gd.2xlarge

Instance Typet3a.2xlarger8gd.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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.2 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest3a.2xlarge, t3a.large, t3a.medium, t3a.micro, t3a.nano, t3a.small, t3a.xlarger8gd.12xlarge, r8gd.16xlarge, r8gd.24xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gd.48xlarge, r8gd.4xlarge, r8gd.8xlarge, r8gd.large, r8gd.medium, r8gd.metal-24xl, r8gd.metal-48xl, r8gd.xlarge
Generationsr6gd.2xlarge, r7gd.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge
Variantst3.2xlarger8a.2xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8i-flex.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge, r8id.2xlarge, r8idb.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge, r8in.2xlarge
RDSdb.r8gd.2xlarge
OpenSearchr8gd.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 475 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2780 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth695 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput86.875 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance15700 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2780 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput347.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 5 GigabitUp to 15 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
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 Diff1.00x1.96x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t3a.2xlarge
r8gd.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.19710.3802
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.30080.5878
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.35140.6765
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.35710.6858
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.37440.6899
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.37760.6902
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.38020.7062
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.39170.7062
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.48380.7062
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.7065
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.7103
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.7103
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.32640.6038
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.7103
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.7103
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.7103
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.7145
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.7757
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.7769
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.9308
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.33410.6206
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.33980.6393
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.33980.6450
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.34300.6450
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.34500.6532
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.34560.6532
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.35140.6614
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.30080.5878
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.30080.5878
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