h1.8xlarge vs x8i.8xlarge

Instance Typeh1.8xlargex8i.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
In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB512 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlargex8i.12xlarge, x8i.16xlarge, x8i.24xlarge, x8i.2xlarge, x8i.32xlarge, x8i.48xlarge, x8i.4xlarge, x8i.64xlarge, x8i.8xlarge, x8i.96xlarge, x8i.large, x8i.metal-48xl, x8i.metal-96xl, x8i.xlarge
Variantsx8g.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance Storage4 x 2000 HDDEBS only
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 Gigabit15000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces810
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.25x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
h1.8xlarge
x8i.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.07603.6125
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a5.0770
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a5.0770
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a5.0770
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a5.0770
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a3.9930
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a4.2016
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a4.2016
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a4.2016
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a4.4102
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a4.4115
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a4.5693
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a4.9019
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.87203.5013
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.87203.5013
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.87203.5013
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