r5a.24xlarge vs i8g.24xlarge

Instance Typer5a.24xlargei8g.24xlarge
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
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
24xlarge – 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
24xlarge – Size
vCPUs9696
Memory768 GiB768 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5a.12xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5a.24xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5a.large, r5a.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsr5a.24xlarge, r6a.24xlarge, r7a.24xlarge, r8a.24xlarge
Variantsr5.24xlarge, r5ad.24xlarge, r5b.24xlarge, r5d.24xlarge, r5dn.24xlarge, r5n.24xlargei8ge.24xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only6 x 3750GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps30000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth13570 Mbps30000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1696.25 Mbps3750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance60000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth13570 Mbps30000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1696.25 Mbps3750 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance20 GigabitUp to 56.25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.54x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
r5a.24xlarge
i8g.24xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)3.4320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)5.42408.6112
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)6.52809.6768
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)6.52809.8208
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)6.52809.8736
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)6.57609.8736
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)6.57609.8736
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)8.68809.9264
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a9.9264
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a13.1520
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)5.95209.0768
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)6.04809.0768
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)6.09609.0768
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)6.38409.3456
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)6.38409.5568
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)6.38409.5568
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)6.52809.6624
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)6.52809.6624
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)5.42408.2368
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)5.42408.2368
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a8.2368
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