h1.2xlarge vs im4gn.2xlarge

Instance Typeh1.2xlargeim4gn.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.

im – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to four ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlargeim4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge
OpenSearchim4gn.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance Storage1 x 2000 HDD1 x 3750 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1750 MBpsup to 9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS20000 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 Diff1.00x1.70x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
h1.2xlarge
im4gn.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.51900.8022
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.8722
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.8722
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.8022
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.8022
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.8260
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.8440
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.8442
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.8442
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.8535
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.8675
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.46800.7276
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.46800.7276
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.46800.7276
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