r5n.16xlarge vs i4g.16xlarge

Instance Typer5n.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
n – Network and EBS optimized
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
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed3.1 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5n.12xlarge, r5n.16xlarge, r5n.24xlarge, r5n.2xlarge, r5n.4xlarge, r5n.8xlarge, r5n.large, r5n.metal, r5n.xlargei4g.16xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge, i4g.large, i4g.xlarge
Generationsr5n.16xlarge, r6in.16xlarge, r8in.16xlargei4g.16xlarge, i8g.16xlarge
Variantsr5.16xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5ad.16xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5d.16xlarge, r5dn.16xlargei4i.16xlarge
OpenSearchi4g.16xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 3750 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth13600 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1700 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance60000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth13600 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1700 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance75 Gigabit37500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.02x

Regional Prices

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r5n.16xlarge
i4g.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.89605.4464
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.6960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)5.6960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)5.7280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)5.7280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)5.7920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)5.7920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)6.3570n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)6.4640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)7.5520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)5.08805.4464
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)5.21605.9242
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)5.34405.9242
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)5.40807.8912
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)5.6000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)5.6000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)5.6010n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)5.6960n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.76804.9421
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.76804.9421
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.76804.9421
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