r8gd.16xlarge vs i8g.16xlarge

Instance Typer8gd.16xlargei8g.16xlarge
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
d – Instance store volume
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
Memory512 GiB512 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr8gd.12xlarge, r8gd.16xlarge, r8gd.24xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gd.48xlarge, r8gd.4xlarge, r8gd.8xlarge, r8gd.large, r8gd.medium, r8gd.metal-24xl, r8gd.metal-48xl, r8gd.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsr6gd.16xlarge, r7gd.16xlarge, r8gd.16xlargei4g.16xlarge, i8g.16xlarge
Variantsr8a.16xlarge, r8g.16xlarge, r8gb.16xlarge, r8gn.16xlarge, r8i-flex.16xlarge, r8i.16xlarge, r8ib.16xlarge, r8id.16xlarge, r8idb.16xlarge, r8idn.16xlarge, r8in.16xlarge
RDSdb.r8gd.16xlarge
OpenSearchr8gd.16xlarge.searchi8g.16xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage2 x 1900 NVMe SSD4 x 3750GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput20000 MBps20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth20000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2500 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth20000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2500 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance30 GigabitUp to 37.5 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.18x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r8gd.16xlarge
i8g.16xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)3.0413n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.70275.7408
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.41186.4512
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)5.48676.5472
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)5.51946.5824
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)5.52136.5824
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)5.64996.5824
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)5.64996.6176
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)5.64996.6176
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)5.65188.7680
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)5.6826n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)5.6826n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)4.83016.0512
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)5.6826n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)5.6826n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)5.6826n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)5.7158n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)6.2054n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)7.4464n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)4.96456.0512
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)5.11426.0512
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)5.15976.2304
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)5.15976.3712
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)5.22566.3712
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)5.22566.4416
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)5.29096.4416
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.70275.4912
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.70275.4912
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a5.4912
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