r5ad.8xlarge vs i4g.8xlarge

Instance Typer5ad.8xlargei4g.8xlarge
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
8xlarge – 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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory256 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 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.8xlarge, i8g.8xlarge
Variantsr5.8xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5d.8xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5n.8xlargei4i.8xlarge
OpenSearchi4g.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage2 x 600 NVMe SSD2 x 3750 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth4750 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput593.75 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit18750 Megabit
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.8xlarge
i4g.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.3290n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.09602.7232
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.5440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.5440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.5440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.3280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.30402.7232
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.33602.9621
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.36802.9621
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.44803.9456
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.4640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.5280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.5280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.5280n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.09602.4710
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.09602.4710
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.4710
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