r5ad.16xlarge vs i4g.16xlarge

Instance Typer5ad.16xlargei4g.16xlarge
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
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
d – Instance store volume
16xlarge – 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
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory512 GiB512 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5ad.12xlarge, r5ad.16xlarge, r5ad.24xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5ad.4xlarge, r5ad.8xlarge, r5ad.large, r5ad.xlargei4g.16xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge, i4g.large, i4g.xlarge
Generationsi4g.16xlarge, i8g.16xlarge
Variantsr5.16xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5d.16xlarge, r5dn.16xlarge, r5n.16xlargei4i.16xlarge
OpenSearchi4g.16xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage4 x 600 NVMe SSD4 x 3750 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth9500 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1187.5 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth9500 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1187.5 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12 Gigabit37500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.19x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r5ad.16xlarge
i4g.16xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)2.6580n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.19205.4464
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.0880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)5.0880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)5.0880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)6.6560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)4.60805.4464
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)4.67205.9242
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)4.73605.9242
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)4.89607.8912
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)4.9280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)5.0560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)5.0560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)5.0560n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.19204.9421
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.19204.9421
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a4.9421
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