r8gn.2xlarge vs i4i.2xlarge

Instance Typer8gn.2xlargei4i.2xlarge
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
2xlarge – 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
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB64 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.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsr8a.2xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8i-flex.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge, r8id.2xlarge, r8idb.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge, r8in.2xlargei4g.2xlarge
OpenSearchi4i.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1875 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth5000 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput625 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 50 GigabitUp to 12 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
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 Diff1.00x1.10x

Regional Prices

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r8gn.2xlarge
i4i.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a0.7170
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.7790
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.7790
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.7950
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.8050
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.8050
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.8050
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.7210
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.8180
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.8270
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.8270
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.8640
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.7250
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.9000
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.9020
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.9060
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a1.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.7570
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.6860
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.72870.6860
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.72870.6860
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