i4g.2xlarge vs r8gb.2xlarge

Instance Typei4g.2xlarger8gb.2xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsNoSQL 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
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
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi4g.16xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge, i4g.large, i4g.xlarger8gb.12xlarge, r8gb.16xlarge, r8gb.24xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gb.48xlarge, r8gb.4xlarge, r8gb.8xlarge, r8gb.large, r8gb.medium, r8gb.metal-24xl, r8gb.metal-48xl, r8gb.xlarge
Generationsi4g.2xlarge, i8g.2xlarge
Variantsi4i.2xlarger8a.2xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8i-flex.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge, r8id.2xlarge, r8idb.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge, r8in.2xlarge
OpenSearchi4g.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance Storage1 x 1875 SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 25000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps12500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps1562.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps3125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12 GigabitUp to 33.333 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.03x

Regional Prices

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i4g.2xlarge
r8gb.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.6808n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.6808n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.7405n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.7405n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.9864n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.6178n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.61780.7287
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.61780.7287
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