r3.8xlarge vs i2.8xlarge

Instance Typer3.8xlargei2.8xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory 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.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
2 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory244 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsr3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlargei2.8xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarge
RDSdb.r3.8xlarge
OpenSearchr3.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units104104
Instance Storage2 x 320 SSD8 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupportedunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput1500 MBps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.38x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
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On Demand
Geography
Region
r3.8xlarge
i2.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.96407.5020
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.5970n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.96407.5020
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.03207.7330
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.19208.0040
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.19208.0040
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.19208.1020
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.19208.1400
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.19208.1400
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.20108.1840
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.65606.8200
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.66006.8200
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.66006.8200
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