i4g.8xlarge vs i3.8xlarge

Instance Typei4g.8xlargei3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsNoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

iIOPS / storage optimized
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
8xlarge – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

iIOPS / storage optimized
3 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory256 GiB244 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
Sizesi4g.16xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge, i4g.large, i4g.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsi4g.8xlarge, i8g.8xlargei2.8xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarge
Variantsi4i.8xlarge
OpenSearchi4g.8xlarge.searchi3.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance Storage2 x 3750 SSD4 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS32500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS32500 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance18750 Megabit10 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 Diff1.00x1.03x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
i4g.8xlarge
i3.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.72322.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.9280
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.9280
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.9280
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.9760
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.72322.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a3.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a3.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a3.0270
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a3.0270
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a3.2740
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a3.2800
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a3.2960
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a3.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.96212.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.96212.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.94562.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a2.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a2.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.8900
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.8960
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.47102.4960
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.47102.4960
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.47102.4960
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