t3.2xlarge vs i8g.2xlarge

Instance Typet3.2xlargei8g.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
3 – Generation
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
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Skylake E5 2686 v5AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest3.2xlarge, t3.large, t3.medium, t3.micro, t3.nano, t3.small, t3.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationst2.2xlarge, t3.2xlargei4g.2xlarge, i8g.2xlarge
Variantst3a.2xlargei8ge.2xlarge
SageMakerml.t3.2xlarge
RDSdb.t3.2xlarge
OpenSearchi8g.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1875GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2780 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth695 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput86.875 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance15700 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2780 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput347.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 5 GigabitUp to 12 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnono
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.01x

Regional Prices

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t3.2xlarge
i8g.2xlarge
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USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.33280.6864
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USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.33280.6864
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