x8i.xlarge vs i7ie.xlarge

Instance Typex8i.xlargei7ie.xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsIn-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
i – Intel processor
xlarge – 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
e – Extra storage or memory
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory64 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)
Clock Speed3.9 GHz3.2 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesx8i.12xlarge, x8i.16xlarge, x8i.24xlarge, x8i.2xlarge, x8i.32xlarge, x8i.48xlarge, x8i.4xlarge, x8i.64xlarge, x8i.8xlarge, x8i.96xlarge, x8i.large, x8i.metal-48xl, x8i.metal-96xl, x8i.xlargei7ie.12xlarge, i7ie.18xlarge, i7ie.24xlarge, i7ie.2xlarge, i7ie.3xlarge, i7ie.48xlarge, i7ie.6xlarge, i7ie.large, i7ie.metal-24xl, i7ie.metal-48xl, i7ie.xlarge
Variantsx8aedz.xlarge, x8g.xlargei7i.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 2500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput156.25 Mbps156.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS5000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12500 MegabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.12x

Regional Prices

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x8i.xlarge
i7ie.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.45160.5451
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.63460.5911
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.63460.5911
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.63460.6031
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.63460.6049
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.6049
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.6118
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.6118
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.6210
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.6233
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.6233
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.49910.5458
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.6233
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.6233
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.6279
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.6279
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.6831
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.6831
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.6861
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.8280
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.52520.5610
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.52520.5610
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.52520.5750
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.55130.5750
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.55140.5750
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.57120.5750
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.61270.5750
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.43770.5198
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.43770.5198
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.43770.5198
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