h1.8xlarge vs r4.8xlarge

Instance Typeh1.8xlarger4.8xlarge
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
8xlarge – 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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB244 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
Generationsr3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarge
RDSdb.r4.8xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.8xlarge
OpenSearchr4.8xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units9797
Instance Storage4 x 2000 HDDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps6000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7000 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput875 Mbps875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS37500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS37500 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7000 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput875 Mbps875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
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
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On Demand
Geography
Region
h1.8xlarge
r4.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.07602.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.5600
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.5600
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.5600
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.5608
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a4.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a2.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a2.3712
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a2.3712
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a2.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a2.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a2.5536
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.5536
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.5600
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.87202.1280
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.87202.1280
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.87202.1280
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