h1.16xlarge vs r4.16xlarge

Instance Typeh1.16xlarger4.16xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsAmazon 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
16xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
High-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
4 – Generation
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory256 GiB488 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlarger4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarge
Generationsr4.16xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r6i.16xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r8i.16xlarge
RDSdb.r4.16xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.16xlarge
OpenSearchr4.16xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201201
Instance Storage8 x 2000 HDDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput14000 MBps12000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth14000 Mbps14000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1750 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS75000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS75000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth14000 Mbps14000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1750 Mbps1750 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit20 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces815
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.32x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
h1.16xlarge
r4.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.15204.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a5.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a5.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a5.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a5.1216
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a8.9600
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a4.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a4.7424
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a4.7424
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a4.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a4.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a5.1072
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a5.1072
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a5.1200
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)3.74404.2560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.74404.2560
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)3.74404.2560
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