r6id.2xlarge vs i8g.2xlarge

Instance Typer6id.2xlargei8g.2xlarge
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
6 – Generation
i – Intel processor
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – 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
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.5 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr6id.12xlarge, r6id.16xlarge, r6id.24xlarge, r6id.2xlarge, r6id.32xlarge, r6id.4xlarge, r6id.8xlarge, r6id.large, r6id.metal, r6id.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsr6id.2xlarge, r8id.2xlargei4g.2xlarge, i8g.2xlarge
Variantsr6a.2xlarge, r6g.2xlarge, r6gd.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r6idn.2xlarge, r6in.2xlargei8ge.2xlarge
SageMakerml.r6id.2xlarge
RDSdb.r6id.2xlarge
OpenSearchi8g.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance Storage1 x 474 NVMe SSD1 x 1875GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12500 MegabitUp to 12 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.17x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
r6id.2xlarge
i8g.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.62120.7176
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.70560.8064
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.70980.8184
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.72660.8228
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.72680.8228
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.72680.8228
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.73080.8272
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.73080.8272
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.73081.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.7980n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.62120.7564
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.63440.7564
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.63500.7564
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.65770.7788
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.66360.7964
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.67200.7964
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.67200.8052
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.69600.8052
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.60480.6864
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.60480.6864
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.60480.6864
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