a1.4xlarge vs r8idb.4xlarge
| a1.4xlarge | r8idb.4xlarge |
| General purpose | Memory optimized |
| Obsolete. Not recommended for use Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments. a – ARM AWS Graviton Processor 1 – Generation 4xlarge – 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 i – Intel processor d – Instance store volume b – EBS optimized 4xlarge – Size |
| 16 | 16 |
| 32 GiB | 128 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) |
| 2.3 GHz | 3.9 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | r8idb.12xlarge, r8idb.16xlarge, r8idb.24xlarge, r8idb.2xlarge, r8idb.32xlarge, r8idb.48xlarge, r8idb.4xlarge, r8idb.8xlarge, r8idb.96xlarge, r8idb.large, r8idb.xlarge |
| r8a.4xlarge, r8g.4xlarge, r8gb.4xlarge, r8gd.4xlarge, r8gn.4xlarge, r8i-flex.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge, r8ib.4xlarge, r8id.4xlarge, r8idn.4xlarge, r8in.4xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 950 NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| 3500 MBps | up to 25000 MBps |
| 3500 Mbps | 12500 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 1562.5 Mbps |
| 20000 IOPS | 60000 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 120000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 25000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 3125 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 33.33 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 50 |
| 30 | 50 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 4.26x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.4xlarge | r8idb.4xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.4080 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.4080 | 2.0891 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4608 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.4656 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.4704 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.5136 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.5328 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.4080 | 1.8758 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4080 | 1.8758 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 1.8758 |