i8g.4xlarge vs hpc7g.4xlarge

Instance Typei8g.4xlargehpc7g.4xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedCompute optimized
DetailsNoSQL 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
4xlarge – Size
High-performance computing (HPC), computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, seismic analysis, reservoir simulation, risk analysis, and weather modeling.

hpc – High performance computing (HPC) / high disk throughput
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory128 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorAWS Graviton3 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.6 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlargehpc7g.16xlarge, hpc7g.4xlarge, hpc7g.8xlarge
Generationsi4g.4xlarge, i8g.4xlarge
OpenSearchi8g.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
Instance Storage1 x 3750GBEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBps87 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth5000 Mbps87 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput625 Mbps10.875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS11000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps2085 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps260.625 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 25 Gigabit200 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces84
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.20x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
i8g.4xlarge
hpc7g.4xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a1.8059
USGovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1)n/a2.0262
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.43522.1117
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.6128n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.6368n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.6456n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.6456n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.6456n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.6544n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)1.6544n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.1920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.5128n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.5128n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.5128n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.5576n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.5928n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.5928n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.6104n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.6104n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.3728n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.37281.6832
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.3728n/a
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