r8gn.16xlarge vs i4i.16xlarge

Instance Typer8gn.16xlargei4i.16xlarge
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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
16xlarge – 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
i – Intel processor
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory512 GiB512 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr8gn.12xlarge, r8gn.16xlarge, r8gn.24xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8gn.48xlarge, r8gn.4xlarge, r8gn.8xlarge, r8gn.large, r8gn.medium, r8gn.metal-24xl, r8gn.metal-48xl, r8gn.xlargei4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlarge
Generationsi4i.16xlarge, i7i.16xlarge
Variantsr8a.16xlarge, r8g.16xlarge, r8gb.16xlarge, r8gd.16xlarge, r8i-flex.16xlarge, r8i.16xlarge, r8ib.16xlarge, r8id.16xlarge, r8idb.16xlarge, r8idn.16xlarge, r8in.16xlargei4g.16xlarge
OpenSearchi4i.16xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 3750 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput40000 MBps20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth40000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput5000 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance160000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance160000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth40000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput5000 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance200 Gigabit35000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1615
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesno
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.10x

Regional Prices

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r8gn.16xlarge
i4i.16xlarge
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HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a6.0540
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a6.2300
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a6.2300
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a6.3570
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a6.3710
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a6.3710
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a6.3710
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a6.4420
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a6.4420
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HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a5.7660
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a6.5470
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a6.5820
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a6.5820
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a6.5820
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a6.5820
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a6.6180
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a6.6180
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a6.6530
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a6.6530
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a6.9120
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a5.7970
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a7.2020
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a7.2160
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a7.2510
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a8.7650
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a5.9240
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a5.9240
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a6.0540
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a6.0540
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a6.0540
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a6.0540
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a5.4910
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)5.82985.4910
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)5.82985.4910
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