r7i.8xlarge vs d3.8xlarge

Instance Typer7i.8xlarged3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsHigh-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory 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 (Sapphire Rapids)Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed3.2 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr7i.12xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r7i.24xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r7i.48xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r7i.large, r7i.metal-24xl, r7i.metal-48xl, r7i.xlarged3.2xlarge, d3.4xlarge, d3.8xlarge, d3.xlarge
Generationsr6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarged2.8xlarge, d3.8xlarge
Variantsr7a.8xlarge, r7g.8xlarge, r7gd.8xlarge, r7iz.8xlarged3en.8xlarge
SageMakerml.r7i.8xlarge
RDSdb.r7i.8xlarge, db.r7i.8xlarge.tpc2.mem2x, db.r7i.8xlarge.tpc2.mem3x
OpenSearchr7i.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only24 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 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 Performance12500 Megabit25 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 Diff1.00x2.00x

Regional Prices

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r7i.8xlarge
d3.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.17064.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.36885.2645
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.36885.7910
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.48645.7934
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.4864n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.4864n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.5368n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.5368n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.5368n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.5368n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.5536n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.17064.4011
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)2.5536n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)2.5536n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)2.5536n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)2.5536n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)2.5536n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)2.6637n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.3768n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.18404.7878
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.18404.8745
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.22275.0081
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.25125.0081
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.29825.1182
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.31845.1182
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.35205.1182
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.11683.9955
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.11683.9955
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.11683.9955
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