i7i.metal-24xl vs x8g.metal-24xl

Instance Typei7i.metal-24xlx8g.metal-24xl
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
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
metal-24xl – Bare metal
In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
metal-24xl – Bare metal
vCPUs9696
Memory768 GiB1536 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.2 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi7i.12xlarge, i7i.16xlarge, i7i.24xlarge, i7i.2xlarge, i7i.48xlarge, i7i.4xlarge, i7i.8xlarge, i7i.large, i7i.metal-24xl, i7i.metal-48xl, i7i.xlargex8g.12xlarge, x8g.16xlarge, x8g.24xlarge, x8g.2xlarge, x8g.48xlarge, x8g.4xlarge, x8g.8xlarge, x8g.large, x8g.medium, x8g.metal-24xl, x8g.metal-48xl, x8g.xlarge
Variantsi7ie.metal-24xlx8aedz.metal-24xl
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage6 x 3750 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput30720 MBps30720 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth30000 Mbps30000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput3750 Mbps3750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance120000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance120000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth30000 Mbps30000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput3750 Mbps3750 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 56.25 Gigabit40 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.01x

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i7i.metal-24xl
x8g.metal-24xl
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USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)9.06059.3792
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)9.06059.3792
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)9.06059.3792
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