r4.4xlarge vs i3.4xlarge

Instance Typer4.4xlargei3.4xlarge
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
4xlarge – 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
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory122 GiB122 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
Generationsr3.4xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r6i.4xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r8i.4xlargei2.4xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i7i.4xlarge
RDSdb.r4.4xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.4xlarge
OpenSearchr4.4xlarge.searchi3.4xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units5858
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedsupported
Dedicated Throughput3000 MBps3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps3500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps437.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance18750 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance18750 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps3500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps437.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.16x

Regional Prices

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r4.4xlarge
i3.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.09601.3040
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.28001.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.28001.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.28001.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.28041.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.24001.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.4880
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a1.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a1.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a1.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.16801.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a1.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a1.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a1.5140
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a1.5140
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a1.6370
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a1.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a1.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a1.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.18561.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.18561.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.24801.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.24801.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.27681.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.27681.4450
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.28001.4480
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.06401.2480
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.06401.2480
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.06401.2480
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