c7a.4xlarge vs i4g.4xlarge

Instance Typec7a.4xlargei4g.4xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsHigh-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

c – Compute optimized
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
4xlarge – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R14 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed3.7 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc7a.12xlarge, c7a.16xlarge, c7a.24xlarge, c7a.2xlarge, c7a.32xlarge, c7a.48xlarge, c7a.4xlarge, c7a.8xlarge, c7a.large, c7a.medium, c7a.metal-48xl, c7a.xlargei4g.16xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge, i4g.large, i4g.xlarge
Generationsc5a.4xlarge, c6a.4xlarge, c7a.4xlarge, c8a.4xlargei4g.4xlarge, i8g.4xlarge
Variantsc7g.4xlarge, c7gd.4xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c7i-flex.4xlarge, c7i.4xlargei4i.4xlarge
OpenSearchi4g.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 3750 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth5000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput625 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12500 MegabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.56x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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Geography
Region
c7a.4xlarge
i4g.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.87901.3616
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.88081.3616
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.88101.4810
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.93701.4810
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.94671.9728
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.9757n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.0239n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.0336n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.82111.2355
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.82111.2355
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.82111.2355
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