x2gd.4xlarge vs i3.4xlarge

Instance Typex2gd.4xlargei3.4xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsIn-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
2 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
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
Memory256 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesx2gd.12xlarge, x2gd.16xlarge, x2gd.2xlarge, x2gd.4xlarge, x2gd.8xlarge, x2gd.large, x2gd.medium, x2gd.metal, x2gd.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsi2.4xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i7i.4xlarge
Variantsx2iedn.4xlarge, x2iezn.4xlarge
OpenSearchi3.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units58
Instance Storage1 x 950 SSD2 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughput4750 MBps3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth4750 Mbps3500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput593.75 Mbps437.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps3500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 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 Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.05x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
x2gd.4xlarge
i3.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.60001.3040
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)1.33601.2480
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.33601.2480
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.33601.2480
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