r5ad.xlarge vs i4g.xlarge

Instance Typer5ad.xlargei4g.xlarge
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
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
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory32 GiB32 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.xlarge, i8g.xlarge
Variantsr5.xlarge, r5a.xlarge, r5b.xlarge, r5d.xlarge, r5dn.xlarge, r5n.xlargei4i.xlarge
OpenSearchi4g.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance Storage1 x 150 NVMe SSD1 x 937 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1085 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput135.625 Mbps156.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS5000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.19x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r5ad.xlarge
i4g.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1660n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.26200.3404
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.3180n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.3180n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.3180n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.4160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.28800.3404
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.29200.3703
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.29600.3703
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.30600.4932
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.3080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.3160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.3160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.3160n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.26200.3089
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.26200.3089
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.3089
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