h1.2xlarge vs r4.2xlarge

Instance Typeh1.2xlarger4.2xlarge
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
2xlarge – 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
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB61 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
Generationsr3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
RDSdb.r4.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.2xlarge
OpenSearchr4.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units3131
Instance Storage1 x 2000 HDDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput1750 MBps1600 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1750 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput218.75 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
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
h1.2xlarge
r4.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.51900.5480
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.6402
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.5928
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.5928
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.6384
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.6384
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.6400
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.46800.5320
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.46800.5320
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.46800.5320
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