i7i.8xlarge vs d3.8xlarge

Instance Typei7i.8xlarged3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsNoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
8xlarge – Size
Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehousing, MapReduce/Hadoop computing, distributed/file network systems, and log/data-processing applications.

d – Disk / storage optimized
3 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory256 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed2.4 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi7i.12xlarge, i7i.16xlarge, i7i.24xlarge, i7i.2xlarge, i7i.48xlarge, i7i.4xlarge, i7i.8xlarge, i7i.large, i7i.metal-24xl, i7i.metal-48xl, i7i.xlarged3.2xlarge, d3.4xlarge, d3.8xlarge, d3.xlarge
Generationsi4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarged2.8xlarge, d3.8xlarge
Variantsd3en.8xlarge
OpenSearchi7i.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage2 x 3750 NVMe SSD24 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10240 MBps5000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps625 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 25 Gigabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces83
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3020
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3020
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.37x

Regional Prices

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i7i.8xlarge
d3.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.15574.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.42675.2645
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.49655.7910
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.50425.7934
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.5042n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.5042n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)3.5429n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)3.5429n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)3.5429n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)3.6010n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)3.6203n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.25824.4011
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.6203n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.6203n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.6203n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.6397n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.6397n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.6590n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.9611n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)3.9688n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)3.9882n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)4.8206n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.25824.7878
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.32994.8745
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.32995.0081
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.32995.0081
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.32995.1182
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.32995.1182
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.42675.1182
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)3.02023.9955
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.02023.9955
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)3.02023.9955
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