vt1.6xlarge vs h1.8xlarge

Instance Typevt1.6xlargeh1.8xlarge
Instance FamilyMedia AcceleratorStorage optimized
DetailsFast real-time video transcoding and cost-effective live video stream transcoding.

vt – Video transcoding
1 – Generation
6xlarge – Size
Amazon 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
vCPUs2432
Memory48 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259CLIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesvt1.24xlarge, vt1.3xlarge, vt1.6xlargeh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput4750 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth4750 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput593.75 Mbps875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance6250 Megabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.35x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
vt1.6xlarge
h1.8xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)1.4682n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.63652.0760
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a1.8720
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.30001.8720
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.30001.8720
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