r4.16xlarge vs i8g.16xlarge

Instance Typer4.16xlargei8g.16xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
High-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
4 – Generation
16xlarge – 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
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory488 GiB512 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsr4.16xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r6i.16xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r8i.16xlargei4g.16xlarge, i8g.16xlarge
RDSdb.r4.16xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.16xlarge
OpenSearchr4.16xlarge.searchi8g.16xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 3750GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput12000 MBps20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth14000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance75000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance75000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth14000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance20 GigabitUp to 37.5 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.25x

Regional Prices

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r4.16xlarge
i8g.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.38405.7408
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.12006.4512
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)5.12006.5472
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)5.12006.5824
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)5.12166.5824
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)8.96006.5824
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a6.6176
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a6.6176
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a8.7680
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)4.67206.0512
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)4.74246.0512
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)4.74246.0512
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)4.99206.2304
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)4.99206.3712
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)5.10726.3712
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)5.10726.4416
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)5.12006.4416
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.25605.4912
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.25605.4912
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.25605.4912
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