r5b.8xlarge vs i7i.8xlarge

Instance Typer5b.8xlargei7i.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
b – EBS optimized
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
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory256 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5b.12xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5b.24xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5b.4xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5b.large, r5b.metal, r5b.xlargei7i.12xlarge, i7i.16xlarge, i7i.24xlarge, i7i.2xlarge, i7i.48xlarge, i7i.4xlarge, i7i.8xlarge, i7i.large, i7i.metal-24xl, i7i.metal-48xl, i7i.xlarge
Generationsr5b.8xlarge, r8ib.8xlargei4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarge
Variantsr5.8xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5ad.8xlarge, r5d.8xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5n.8xlarge
RDSdb.r5b.8xlarge, db.r5b.8xlarge.tpc2.mem3x
OpenSearchi7i.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 3750 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput5120 MBps10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth20000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2500 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance86667 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance86667 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth20000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2500 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
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 Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.27x

Regional Prices

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r5b.8xlarge
i7i.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.52703.1557
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.89603.4267
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HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a3.9611
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HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.84803.3299
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.84803.3299
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.89603.4267
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.38403.0202
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.38403.0202
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.38403.0202
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