h1.4xlarge vs i8g.4xlarge

Instance Typeh1.4xlargei8g.4xlarge
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
4xlarge – 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
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory64 GiB128 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, h1.8xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsi4g.4xlarge, i8g.4xlarge
OpenSearchi8g.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units58
Instance Storage2 x 2000 HDD1 x 3750GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.65x

Regional Prices

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Per Hour
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On Demand
Geography
Region
h1.4xlarge
i8g.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.03801.4352
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.6128
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.6368
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.6456
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.6456
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.6456
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.6544
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.6544
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a1.5128
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a1.5128
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a1.5128
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a1.5576
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a1.5928
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a1.5928
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a1.6104
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.6104
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.93601.3728
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.93601.3728
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.93601.3728
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