x8g.large vs i3en.large

Instance Typex8g.largei3en.large
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsIn-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
large – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

iIOPS / storage optimized
3 – Generation
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory32 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed2.8 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesx8g.12xlarge, x8g.16xlarge, x8g.24xlarge, x8g.2xlarge, x8g.48xlarge, x8g.4xlarge, x8g.8xlarge, x8g.large, x8g.medium, x8g.metal-24xl, x8g.metal-48xl, x8g.xlargei3en.12xlarge, i3en.24xlarge, i3en.2xlarge, i3en.3xlarge, i3en.6xlarge, i3en.large, i3en.metal, i3en.xlarge
Variantsx8aedz.large, x8i.largei3.large
SageMakerml.i3en.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units10
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1250 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBpsup to 3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth630 Mbps576 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput78.75 Mbps72.1 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3600 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12.5 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.19x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
x8g.large
i3en.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.22250.2370
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.2500
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.2570
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.2570
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.2620
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.2630
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.2630
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.2630
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.2660
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.2660
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.2660
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23400.2370
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.2700
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.2710
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.2710
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.2710
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.2710
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.2730
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.2730
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.2740
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.2750
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.2850
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.23450.2390
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.2970
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.2970
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.2980
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a0.3600
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.27310.2440
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.2440
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.2500
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.2500
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.2500
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.2500
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.19540.2260
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.19540.2260
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.19540.2260
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