i3.8xlarge vs i4i.8xlarge

Instance Typei3.8xlargei4i.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.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
3 – Generation
8xlarge – 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
4 – Generation
i – Intel processor
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory244 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlargei4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlarge
Generationsi2.8xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlargei4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarge
Variantsi4g.8xlarge
OpenSearchi3.8xlarge.searchi4i.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance Storage4 x 1900 NVMe SSD2 x 3750 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMesupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput875 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance32500 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance32500 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput875 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit18750 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.09x

Regional Prices

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i3.8xlarge
i4i.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.60802.8690
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.89603.0270
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.89603.1150
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.92803.1150
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.92803.1790
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.92803.1860
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.97603.1860
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.99203.1860
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.99203.2210
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.99203.2210
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.99203.2210
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.75202.8830
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.00803.2740
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.00803.2910
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.02703.2910
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.02703.2910
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.27403.2910
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.28003.3090
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.29603.3090
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)3.98403.3260
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a3.3260
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a3.4560
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.75202.8990
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a3.6010
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a3.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a3.6260
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a4.3820
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.75202.9620
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.75202.9620
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.83203.0270
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.83203.0270
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.89003.0270
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.89603.0270
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.49602.7460
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.49602.7460
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.49602.7460
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