i4i.8xlarge vs r6idn.8xlarge

Instance Typei4i.8xlarger6idn.8xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedMemory 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
i – Intel processor
8xlarge – Size
High-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
6 – Generation
i – Intel processor
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory256 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed3.5 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlarger6idn.12xlarge, r6idn.16xlarge, r6idn.24xlarge, r6idn.2xlarge, r6idn.32xlarge, r6idn.4xlarge, r6idn.8xlarge, r6idn.large, r6idn.metal, r6idn.xlarge
Generationsi4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarger6idn.8xlarge, r8idn.8xlarge
Variantsi4g.8xlarger6a.8xlarge, r6g.8xlarge, r6gd.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r6id.8xlarge, r6in.8xlarge
RDSdb.r6idn.8xlarge
OpenSearchi4i.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage2 x 3750 NVMe SSD1 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps25000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps3125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS100000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS100000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps3125 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance18750 Megabit50000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.10x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
i4i.8xlarge
r6idn.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.86903.3134
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.0270n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.1150n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.1150n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.1790n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.1860n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)3.1860n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)3.1860n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)3.2210n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)3.2210n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)3.2210n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.88303.4389
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.2740n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.2910n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.2910n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.2910n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.2910n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.3090n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.3090n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)3.3260n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)3.3260n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)3.4560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.89903.4819
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)3.6010n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)3.6080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)3.6260n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)4.3820n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.96203.6691
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.96203.7253
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.02703.7440
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.02703.7627
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.02703.8002
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.02703.8189
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.74603.1262
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.74603.1262
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.74603.1262
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