h1.16xlarge vs x8i.16xlarge

Instance Typeh1.16xlargex8i.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.

hHDD / hard disk throughput optimized
1 – Generation
16xlarge – Size
In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory256 GiB1024 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlargex8i.12xlarge, x8i.16xlarge, x8i.24xlarge, x8i.2xlarge, x8i.32xlarge, x8i.48xlarge, x8i.4xlarge, x8i.64xlarge, x8i.8xlarge, x8i.96xlarge, x8i.large, x8i.metal-48xl, x8i.metal-96xl, x8i.xlarge
Variantsx8g.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201
Instance Storage8 x 2000 HDDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput14000 MBps20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth14000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth14000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit30000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces816
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5064
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5064
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.02x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
h1.16xlarge
x8i.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.15207.9859
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a9.8038
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)3.74407.0026
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.74407.0026
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)3.74407.0026
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