c8ib.2xlarge vs im4gn.2xlarge

Instance Typec8ib.2xlargeim4gn.2xlarge
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
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
b – EBS optimized
2xlarge – 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
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed3.9 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc8ib.12xlarge, c8ib.16xlarge, c8ib.24xlarge, c8ib.2xlarge, c8ib.32xlarge, c8ib.48xlarge, c8ib.4xlarge, c8ib.8xlarge, c8ib.96xlarge, c8ib.large, c8ib.metal-48xl, c8ib.metal-96xl, c8ib.xlargeim4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge
Variantsc8a.2xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c8gb.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c8gn.2xlarge, c8i-flex.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge, c8id.2xlarge, c8in.2xlarge, c8ine.2xlarge
OpenSearchim4gn.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 3750 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 25000 MBpsup to 9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth6250 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput781.25 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance120000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth25000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput3125 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 26.667 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.50x

Regional Prices

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c8ib.2xlarge
im4gn.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a0.8022
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.8722
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.8722
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.8022
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.8022
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.8260
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.8440
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.8442
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.8442
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.8535
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.8675
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.7276
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.54430.7276
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.54430.7276
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