i4g.xlarge vs i8g.xlarge

Instance Typei4g.xlargei8g.xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedStorage 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
xlarge – 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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory32 GiB32 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.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsi4g.xlarge, i8g.xlargei4g.xlarge, i8g.xlarge
Variantsi4i.xlargei8ge.xlarge
OpenSearchi4g.xlarge.searchi8g.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance Storage1 x 937 SSD1 x 937GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput156.25 Mbps156.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance5000 IOPS5000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
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 Diff1.00x1.12x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
i4g.xlarge
i8g.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.34040.3588
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.4032
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.4092
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.4114
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.4114
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.4114
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.4136
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.4136
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.5480
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.34040.3782
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.37030.3782
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.37030.3782
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.49320.3894
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.3982
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.3982
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.4026
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.4026
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.30890.3432
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.30890.3432
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.30890.3432
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