x2gd.16xlarge vs i4g.16xlarge

Instance Typex2gd.16xlargei4g.16xlarge
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
2 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton 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
Memory1024 GiB512 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesx2gd.12xlarge, x2gd.16xlarge, x2gd.2xlarge, x2gd.4xlarge, x2gd.8xlarge, x2gd.large, x2gd.medium, x2gd.metal, x2gd.xlargei4g.16xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge, i4g.large, i4g.xlarge
Generationsi4g.16xlarge, i8g.16xlarge
Variantsx2idn.16xlarge, x2iedn.16xlargei4i.16xlarge
OpenSearchi4g.16xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage2 x 1900 SSD4 x 3750 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput19000 MBps20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth19000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2375 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth19000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2375 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 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 Diff1.00x1.01x

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USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)5.34404.9421
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)5.34404.9421
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)5.34404.9421
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