r8a.2xlarge vs i4g.2xlarge
| r8a.2xlarge | i4g.2xlarge |
| Memory optimized | Storage optimized |
| High-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 a – AMD processor 2xlarge – 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 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 64 GiB | 64 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor | AWS Graviton2 Processor |
| 4.5 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 1 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| r8a.12xlarge, r8a.16xlarge, r8a.24xlarge, r8a.2xlarge, r8a.48xlarge, r8a.4xlarge, r8a.8xlarge, r8a.large, r8a.medium, r8a.metal-24xl, r8a.metal-48xl, r8a.xlarge | i4g.16xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge, i4g.large, i4g.xlarge |
| r5a.2xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r8a.2xlarge | i4g.2xlarge, i8g.2xlarge |
| r8g.2xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8i-flex.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge, r8id.2xlarge, r8idb.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge, r8in.2xlarge | i4i.2xlarge |
| db.r8a.2xlarge | |
| i4g.2xlarge.search | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 1875 SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 10000 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 2500 Mbps | 2500 Mbps |
| 312.5 Mbps | 312.5 Mbps |
| 12000 IOPS | 10000 IOPS |
| 40000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 10000 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 1250 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 15000 Megabit | Up to 12 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 40 | 15 |
| 40 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.02x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | r8a.2xlarge | i4g.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.7151 | 0.6808 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.7151 | 0.6808 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.7709 | 0.7405 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.7709 | 0.7405 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 0.9864 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.6390 | 0.6178 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.6390 | 0.6178 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.6390 | 0.6178 |