i3.8xlarge vs i8ge.6xlarge

Instance Typei3.8xlargei8ge.6xlarge
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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
e – Extra storage or memory
6xlarge – Size
vCPUs3224
Memory244 GiB192 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlargei8ge.12xlarge, i8ge.18xlarge, i8ge.24xlarge, i8ge.2xlarge, i8ge.3xlarge, i8ge.48xlarge, i8ge.6xlarge, i8ge.large, i8ge.metal-24xl, i8ge.metal-48xl, i8ge.xlarge
Generationsi2.8xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarge
OpenSearchi3.8xlarge.searchi8ge.6xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance Storage4 x 1900 NVMe SSD2 x 7500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMesupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7000 Mbps7500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput875 Mbps937.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance32500 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance32500 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput875 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit37.5 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces810
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 Diff1.00x1.10x

Regional Prices

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i3.8xlarge
i8ge.6xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.60802.9862
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.89603.3516
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.89603.4020
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.92803.4146
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.92803.4146
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.92803.4398
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.97603.4398
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.99203.7611
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.9920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.9920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.9920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.75203.0744
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.0080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.0080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.0270n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.0270n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.2740n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.2800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.2960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)3.9840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.75203.0744
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.75203.1500
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.75203.1500
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.83203.2382
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.83203.3138
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.89003.3138
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.89603.3516
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.49602.8476
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.49602.8476
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.49602.8476
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