hpc7g.8xlarge vs i8g.8xlarge

Instance Typehpc7g.8xlargei8g.8xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsHigh-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
8xlarge – Size
NoSQL 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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.6 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizeshpc7g.16xlarge, hpc7g.4xlarge, hpc7g.8xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsi4g.8xlarge, i8g.8xlarge
OpenSearchi8g.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 3750GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput87 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth87 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput10.875 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance500 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance11000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2085 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput260.625 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance200 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces48
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesno
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.66x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
hpc7g.8xlarge
i8g.8xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)1.8059n/a
USGovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1)2.0262n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.11172.8704
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a3.2256
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a3.2736
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a3.2912
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a3.2912
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a3.2912
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a3.3088
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a3.3088
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a4.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a3.0256
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a3.0256
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a3.0256
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a3.1152
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a3.1856
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a3.1856
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a3.2208
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a3.2208
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a2.7456
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.68322.7456
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.7456
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