h1.8xlarge vs im4gn.8xlarge

Instance Typeh1.8xlargeim4gn.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.

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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB128 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.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance Storage4 x 2000 HDD2 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps19000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput875 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput875 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit50 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
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 Diff1.00x1.70x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
h1.8xlarge
im4gn.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.07603.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a3.4887
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a3.4887
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a3.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a3.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a3.3040
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a3.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a3.3767
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a3.3767
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a3.4141
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a3.4700
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.87202.9103
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.87202.9103
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.87202.9103
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