hpc7g.8xlarge vs im4gn.8xlarge

Instance Typehpc7g.8xlargeim4gn.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.

im – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to four ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.6 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizeshpc7g.16xlarge, hpc7g.4xlarge, hpc7g.8xlargeim4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge
OpenSearchim4gn.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput87 MBps19000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth87 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput10.875 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance500 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance11000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2085 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput260.625 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance200 Gigabit50 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
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 Diff1.00x1.71x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
hpc7g.8xlarge
im4gn.8xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)1.8059n/a
USGovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1)2.0262n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.11173.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a3.4887
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a3.4887
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a3.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a3.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a3.3040
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a3.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a3.3767
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a3.3767
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a3.4141
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a3.4700
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a2.9103
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.68322.9103
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.9103
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