i3.16xlarge vs x8g.16xlarge

Instance Typei3.16xlargex8g.16xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsNoSQL 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
In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory488 GiB1024 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlargex8g.12xlarge, x8g.16xlarge, x8g.24xlarge, x8g.2xlarge, x8g.48xlarge, x8g.4xlarge, x8g.8xlarge, x8g.large, x8g.medium, x8g.metal-24xl, x8g.metal-48xl, x8g.xlarge
Generationsi3.16xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i7i.16xlarge
Variantsi3p.16xlargex8i.16xlarge
OpenSearchi3.16xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201
Instance Storage8 x 1900 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMesupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput14000 MBps20480 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth14000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance65000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance65000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth14000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance20 Gigabit30 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.21x

Regional Prices

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i3.16xlarge
x8g.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)5.21607.1187
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.7920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)5.7920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)5.8560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)5.8560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)5.8560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)5.9520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)5.9840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)5.9840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)5.9840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)5.9840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)5.50407.4880
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)6.0160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)6.0160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)6.0540n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)6.0540n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)6.5470n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)6.5600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)6.5920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)7.9680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)5.50407.5034
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)5.50408.7392
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)5.5040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)5.6640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)5.6640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)5.7790n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)5.7920n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.99206.2528
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.99206.2528
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.99206.2528
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