h1.8xlarge vs i8g.8xlarge

Instance Typeh1.8xlargei8g.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
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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB256 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.8xlarge, i8g.8xlarge
OpenSearchi8g.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance Storage4 x 2000 HDD2 x 3750GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput875 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput875 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 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 Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.65x

Regional Prices

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Per Hour
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On Demand
Geography
Region
h1.8xlarge
i8g.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.07602.8704
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a3.2256
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a3.2736
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a3.2912
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a3.2912
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a3.2912
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a3.3088
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a3.3088
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a4.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a3.0256
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a3.0256
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a3.0256
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a3.1152
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a3.1856
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a3.1856
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a3.2208
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a3.2208
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.87202.7456
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.87202.7456
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.87202.7456
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