i3.8xlarge vs i2.8xlarge

Instance Typei3.8xlargei2.8xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsNoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

iIOPS / storage optimized
3 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

iIOPS / storage optimized
2 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory244 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsi2.8xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlargei2.8xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarge
OpenSearchi3.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97104
Instance Storage4 x 1900 NVMe SSD8 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMesupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps1500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance32500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance32500 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.61x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
i3.8xlarge
i2.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.60807.5020
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.8960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.8960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.9280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.9280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.9280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.9760n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.9920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.9920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.9920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.9920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.75207.5020
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.0080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.0080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.0270n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.0270n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.2740n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.2800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.2960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)3.9840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.75207.7330
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.75208.0040
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.75208.0040
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.83208.1020
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.83208.1400
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.89008.1400
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.89608.1840
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.49606.8200
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.49606.8200
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.49606.8200
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