h1.2xlarge vs i8ge.2xlarge

Instance Typeh1.2xlargei8ge.2xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedStorage 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
2xlarge – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
e – Extra storage or memory
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlargei8ge.12xlarge, i8ge.18xlarge, i8ge.24xlarge, i8ge.2xlarge, i8ge.3xlarge, i8ge.48xlarge, i8ge.6xlarge, i8ge.large, i8ge.metal-24xl, i8ge.metal-48xl, i8ge.xlarge
Variantsi8g.2xlarge
OpenSearchi8ge.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance Storage1 x 2000 HDD2 x 2500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1750 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1750 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput218.75 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.24x

Regional Prices

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Geography
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h1.2xlarge
i8ge.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.51900.9954
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.1172
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.1340
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.1382
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.1382
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.1466
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.1466
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.2537
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a1.0248
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a1.0248
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a1.0500
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a1.0500
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a1.0794
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a1.1046
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a1.1046
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.1172
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.46800.9492
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.46800.9492
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.46800.9492
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