r4.16xlarge vs i3.16xlarge

Instance Typer4.16xlargei3.16xlarge
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
4 – Generation
16xlarge – 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
3 – Generation
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory488 GiB488 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsr4.16xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r6i.16xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r8i.16xlargei3.16xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i7i.16xlarge
Variantsi3p.16xlarge
RDSdb.r4.16xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.16xlarge
OpenSearchr4.16xlarge.searchi3.16xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201201
Instance StorageEBS only8 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedsupported
Dedicated Throughput12000 MBps14000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth14000 Mbps14000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1750 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance75000 IOPS65000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance75000 IOPS65000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth14000 Mbps14000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1750 Mbps1750 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance20 Gigabit20 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.16x

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r4.16xlarge
i3.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.38405.2160
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.12005.7920
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)5.12005.7920
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)5.12005.8560
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)5.12165.8560
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)8.96005.8560
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HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a5.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a5.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a5.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a5.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)4.67205.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a6.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a6.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a6.0540
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a6.0540
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a6.5470
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a6.5600
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a6.5920
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a7.9680
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)4.74245.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)4.74245.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)4.99205.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)4.99205.6640
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)5.10725.6640
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)5.10725.7790
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)5.12005.7920
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.25604.9920
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.25604.9920
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.25604.9920
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