h1.8xlarge vs hs1.8xlarge

Instance Typeh1.8xlargehs1.8xlarge
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
8xlarge – Size
1 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3216
Memory128 GiB117 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64n/a
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon E5-2650
Clock Speed2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core20
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlargehs1.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units9735
Instance Storage4 x 2000 HDD24 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMeunsupported
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces8
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface30
IPv6 Addresses per Interface30
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.87x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
h1.8xlarge
hs1.8xlarge
USGovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1)n/a5.5200
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.0760n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.8720n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.8720n/a
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.8720n/a
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