x2gd.8xlarge vs i4g.8xlarge

Instance Typex2gd.8xlargei4g.8xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsIn-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
2 – 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
Memory512 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesx2gd.12xlarge, x2gd.16xlarge, x2gd.2xlarge, x2gd.4xlarge, x2gd.8xlarge, x2gd.large, x2gd.medium, x2gd.metal, x2gd.xlargei4g.16xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge, i4g.large, i4g.xlarge
Generationsi4g.8xlarge, i8g.8xlarge
Variantsx2iedn.8xlarge, x2iezn.8xlargei4i.8xlarge
OpenSearchi4g.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage1 x 1900 SSD2 x 3750 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput9500 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth9500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1187.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth9500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1187.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12 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 Diff1.00x1.01x

Regional Prices

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Geography
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x2gd.8xlarge
i4g.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.20002.7232
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a2.7232
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a2.9621
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a2.9621
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a3.9456
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.67202.4710
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.67202.4710
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.67202.4710
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