hpc7g.8xlarge vs is4gen.8xlarge

Instance Typehpc7g.8xlargeis4gen.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.

is – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to six ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB192 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.8xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only4 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 Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.71x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
hpc7g.8xlarge
is4gen.8xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)1.8059n/a
USGovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1)2.0262n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.11175.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a5.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a5.2400
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a5.3652
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a5.3652
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a5.4264
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a5.5080
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a5.5284
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a5.5284
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a4.6104
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.68324.6104
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a4.6104
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