r5.8xlarge vs i4i.8xlarge

Instance Typer5.8xlargei4i.8xlarge
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
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
i – Intel processor
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory256 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5.12xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r5.24xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r5.large, r5.metal, r5.xlargei4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlarge
Generationsr3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlargei4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarge
Variantsr5a.8xlarge, r5ad.8xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5d.8xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5n.8xlargei4g.8xlarge
SageMakerml.r5.8xlarge
RDSdb.r5.8xlarge, db.r5.8xlarge.tpc2.mem3x
DocumentDBdb.r5.8xlarge
OpenSearchi4i.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units128
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 3750 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput6800 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth6800 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput850 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance30000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth6800 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput850 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 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 Diff1.00x1.35x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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Geography
Region
r5.8xlarge
i4i.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.08002.8690
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.36803.0270
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.36803.1150
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.36903.1150
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.41603.1790
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.41603.1860
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.41603.1860
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.41603.1860
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.43203.2210
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.43203.2210
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.43203.2210
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.08002.8830
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)2.43203.2740
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)2.43203.2910
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)2.43203.2910
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)2.48203.2910
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)2.48203.2910
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)2.67203.3090
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)2.67503.3090
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)2.68803.3260
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)3.21603.3260
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a3.4560
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.14402.8990
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a3.6010
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a3.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a3.6260
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a4.3820
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.20802.9620
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.20802.9620
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.24003.0270
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.25603.0270
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.25603.0270
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.36803.0270
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.01602.7460
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.01602.7460
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.01602.7460
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