h1.8xlarge vs cr1.8xlarge

Accelerators
Instance Type	h1.8xlarge	cr1.8xlarge
Instance Family	Storage optimized	Memory optimized
Details	Amazon EMR workloads, distributed file systems (HDFS, MapR-FS), network file systems, log/data processing apps (like Apache Kafka), and big data clusters. h – HDD / hard disk throughput optimized 1 – Generation 8xlarge – Size	Obsolete. Not recommended for use High memory and compute applications. cr – Compute Rich 1 – Generation 8xlarge – Size
vCPUs	32	32
Memory	128 GiB	244 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	n/a
Processor	Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)	Intel Xeon E5-2670
Clock Speed	2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core	2	0
GPU	no	no
Inference Accelerator	no	no
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	h1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlarge	cr1.8xlarge
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	no	no
EC2 Compute Units	97	88
Instance Storage	4 x 2000 HDD	2 x 120 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized	default
Encryption	supported
NVMe	unsupported
Dedicated Throughput	7000 MBps	400 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth	7000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput	875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance	40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance	40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth	7000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput	875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance	10 Gigabit	10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networking	yes	no
Max Interfaces	8
Max Cards	1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	30
IPv6 Addresses per Interface	30
IPv6 Support	yes	no
ENA Support	supported
EFA Support	no	no
Encryption in Transit Support	no	no
ENA SRD Support	no	no
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.93x

Regional Prices

Geography	Region	h1.8xlarge	cr1.8xlarge
Europe	Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1)	n/a	3.7500
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	2.0760	4.1050
US	US East (Ohio) (us-east-2)	1.8720	n/a
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	1.8720	3.5000
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	1.8720	3.5000