c7gn.16xlarge vs im4gn.16xlarge

Instance Typec7gn.16xlargeim4gn.16xlarge
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
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
16xlarge – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

im – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to four ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory128 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.6 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc7gn.12xlarge, c7gn.16xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c7gn.large, c7gn.medium, c7gn.metal, c7gn.xlargeim4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge
Generationsc6gn.16xlarge, c7gn.16xlarge, c8gn.16xlarge
Variantsc7a.16xlarge, c7g.16xlarge, c7gd.16xlarge, c7i-flex.16xlarge, c7i.16xlarge
OpenSearchim4gn.16xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.c7gn.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput40000 MBps38000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth33333 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput4166.625 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance133333 IOPS160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance160000 IOPS160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth40000 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput5000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance200 Gigabit100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesyes
EFA Max Interfaces11
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.51x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
c7gn.16xlarge
im4gn.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.51206.4176
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a6.9773
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a6.9773
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)5.03686.4177
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a6.4177
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a6.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a6.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a6.7535
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a6.7535
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a6.8281
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a6.9400
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)3.99365.8207
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.99365.8207
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)3.99365.8207
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