r5ad.4xlarge vs i4g.4xlarge

Instance Typer5ad.4xlargei4g.4xlarge
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
4xlarge – 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
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory128 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.2 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.4xlarge, i8g.4xlarge
Variantsr5.4xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5b.4xlarge, r5d.4xlarge, r5dn.4xlarge, r5n.4xlargei4i.4xlarge
OpenSearchi4g.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance Storage2 x 300 NVMe SSD1 x 3750 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2880 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput360 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance16000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
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.4xlarge
i4g.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.6640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.04801.3616
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.2720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.2720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.2720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.6640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.15201.3616
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.16801.4810
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.18401.4810
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.22401.9728
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.2320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.2640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.2640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.2640n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.04801.2355
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.04801.2355
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.2355
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