r7gd.8xlarge vs i4g.8xlarge

Instance Typer7gd.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
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton 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 Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.6 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr7gd.12xlarge, r7gd.16xlarge, r7gd.2xlarge, r7gd.4xlarge, r7gd.8xlarge, r7gd.large, r7gd.medium, r7gd.metal, r7gd.xlargei4g.16xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge, i4g.large, i4g.xlarge
Generationsr6gd.8xlarge, r7gd.8xlarge, r8gd.8xlargei4g.8xlarge, i8g.8xlarge
Variantsr7a.8xlarge, r7g.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r7iz.8xlargei4i.8xlarge
SageMakerml.r7gd.8xlarge
OpenSearchr7gd.8xlarge.searchi4g.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage1 x 1900 NVMe SSD2 x 3750 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance15 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 Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.16x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r7gd.8xlarge
i4g.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)1.4080n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.4080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.17732.7232
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.4494n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.5056n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.5402n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.5402n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.5552n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.5562n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.6157n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.6158n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.6166n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.6166n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.17732.7232
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)2.6307n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)2.6307n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)2.6307n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)2.6309n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)2.6309n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)2.6461n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)2.6611n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)2.8728n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)3.4474n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.23622.9621
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.23622.9621
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.28613.9456
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.2982n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.3677n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.4192n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.4192n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a2.4710
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.17732.4710
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.4710
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