r4.8xlarge vs i3.8xlarge

Instance Typer4.8xlargei3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
4 – 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
3 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory244 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsr3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlargei2.8xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarge
RDSdb.r4.8xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.8xlarge
OpenSearchr4.8xlarge.searchi3.8xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units9797
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedsupported
Dedicated Throughput6000 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7000 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput875 Mbps875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance37500 IOPS32500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance37500 IOPS32500 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7000 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput875 Mbps875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.16x

Regional Prices

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r4.8xlarge
i3.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.19202.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.56002.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.56002.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.56002.9280
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.56082.9280
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)4.48002.9280
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)2.33602.7520
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)2.37122.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.37122.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.49602.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.49602.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.55362.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.55362.8900
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.56002.8960
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.12802.4960
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.12802.4960
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.12802.4960
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