r8gb.xlarge vs i3.xlarge

Instance Typer8gb.xlargei3.xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsHigh-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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
xlarge – 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
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory32 GiB30.5 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr8gb.12xlarge, r8gb.16xlarge, r8gb.24xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gb.48xlarge, r8gb.4xlarge, r8gb.8xlarge, r8gb.large, r8gb.medium, r8gb.metal-24xl, r8gb.metal-48xl, r8gb.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsi2.xlarge, i3.xlarge, i4i.xlarge, i7i.xlarge
Variantsr8a.xlarge, r8g.xlarge, r8gd.xlarge, r8gn.xlarge, r8i-flex.xlarge, r8i.xlarge, r8ib.xlarge, r8id.xlarge, r8idb.xlarge, r8idn.xlarge, r8in.xlargei3en.xlarge
OpenSearchi3.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units16
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 950 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 25000 MBps850 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth6250 Mbps850 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput781.25 Mbps106.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance120000 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth25000 Mbps850 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput3125 Mbps106.25 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 26.667 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.01x

Regional Prices

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r8gb.xlarge
i3.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a0.3260
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.3620
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.3620
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.3660
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.3660
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.3660
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.3720
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.3740
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.3740
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.3740
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.3740
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.3440
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.3780
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.3780
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.4090
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.4100
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.4120
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.4980
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.3440
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.3440
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.3440
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.3540
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.3540
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.3610
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.3620
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.3120
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.36440.3120
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.36440.3120
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