r8gb.4xlarge vs i3.4xlarge

Instance Typer8gb.4xlargei3.4xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsHigh-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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
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
Memory128 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr8gb.12xlarge, r8gb.16xlarge, r8gb.24xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gb.48xlarge, r8gb.4xlarge, r8gb.8xlarge, r8gb.large, r8gb.medium, r8gb.metal-24xl, r8gb.metal-48xl, r8gb.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsi2.4xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i7i.4xlarge
Variantsr8a.4xlarge, r8g.4xlarge, r8gd.4xlarge, r8gn.4xlarge, r8i-flex.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge, r8ib.4xlarge, r8id.4xlarge, r8idb.4xlarge, r8idn.4xlarge, r8in.4xlarge
OpenSearchi3.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units58
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughput25000 MBps3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth25000 Mbps3500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput3125 Mbps437.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance120000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance120000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth25000 Mbps3500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput3125 Mbps437.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance33.333 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.01x

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r8gb.4xlarge
i3.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a1.3040
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.4640
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)n/a1.3760
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)n/a1.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a1.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a1.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a1.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a1.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a1.4450
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.4480
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a1.2480
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.45741.2480
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.45741.2480
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