r7i.8xlarge vs i7i.8xlarge

Instance Typer7i.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
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
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 Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)
Clock Speed3.2 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr7i.12xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r7i.24xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r7i.48xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r7i.large, r7i.metal-24xl, r7i.metal-48xl, r7i.xlargei7i.12xlarge, i7i.16xlarge, i7i.24xlarge, i7i.2xlarge, i7i.48xlarge, i7i.4xlarge, i7i.8xlarge, i7i.large, i7i.metal-24xl, i7i.metal-48xl, i7i.xlarge
Generationsr6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlargei4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarge
Variantsr7a.8xlarge, r7g.8xlarge, r7gd.8xlarge, r7iz.8xlarge
SageMakerml.r7i.8xlarge
RDSdb.r7i.8xlarge, db.r7i.8xlarge.tpc2.mem2x, db.r7i.8xlarge.tpc2.mem3x
OpenSearchr7i.8xlarge.searchi7i.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 3750 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12500 MegabitUp 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 Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.45x

Regional Prices

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r7i.8xlarge
i7i.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.17063.1557
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.36883.4267
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HiddenHidden (hidden-23)2.55363.6397
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)2.55363.6397
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)2.66373.6590
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.37683.9611
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a3.9688
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a3.9882
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a4.8206
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.18403.2582
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.18403.3299
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.22273.3299
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.25123.3299
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.29823.3299
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HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.35203.4267
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.11683.0202
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.11683.0202
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.11683.0202
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