i3.8xlarge vs i7i.8xlarge

Instance Typei3.8xlargei7i.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
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory244 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlargei7i.12xlarge, i7i.16xlarge, i7i.24xlarge, i7i.2xlarge, i7i.48xlarge, i7i.4xlarge, i7i.8xlarge, i7i.large, i7i.metal-24xl, i7i.metal-48xl, i7i.xlarge
Generationsi2.8xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlargei4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarge
OpenSearchi3.8xlarge.searchi7i.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 MBps10240 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 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
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 Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.20x

Regional Prices

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i3.8xlarge
i7i.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.60803.1557
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.89603.4267
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.89603.4965
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.92803.5042
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.92803.5042
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.92803.5042
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.97603.5429
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.99203.5429
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.99203.5429
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.99203.6010
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.99203.6203
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.75203.2582
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.00803.6203
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.00803.6203
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.02703.6203
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.02703.6397
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.27403.6397
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.28003.6590
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.29603.9611
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)3.98403.9688
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a3.9882
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a4.8206
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.75203.2582
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.75203.3299
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.75203.3299
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.83203.3299
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.83203.3299
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.89003.3299
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.89603.4267
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.49603.0202
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.49603.0202
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.49603.0202
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