r8gb.12xlarge vs i8g.12xlarge

Instance Typer8gb.12xlargei8g.12xlarge
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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
12xlarge – 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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs4848
Memory384 GiB384 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr8gb.12xlarge, r8gb.16xlarge, r8gb.24xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gb.48xlarge, r8gb.4xlarge, r8gb.8xlarge, r8gb.large, r8gb.medium, r8gb.metal-24xl, r8gb.metal-48xl, r8gb.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Variantsr8a.12xlarge, r8g.12xlarge, r8gd.12xlarge, r8gn.12xlarge, r8i-flex.12xlarge, r8i.12xlarge, r8ib.12xlarge, r8id.12xlarge, r8idb.12xlarge, r8idn.12xlarge, r8in.12xlargei8ge.12xlarge
OpenSearchi8g.12xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only3 x 3750GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput75000 MBps15000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth75000 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput9375 Mbps1875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance360000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance360000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth75000 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput9375 Mbps1875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance100 GigabitUp to 28.125 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces128
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 Diff1.00x1.09x

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r8gb.12xlarge
i8g.12xlarge
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HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a4.8312
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a4.8312
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a4.1184
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.37234.1184
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.37234.1184
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