r8gn.4xlarge vs i8g.4xlarge

Instance Typer8gn.4xlargei8g.4xlarge
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
n – Network and EBS optimized
4xlarge – 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
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory128 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr8gn.12xlarge, r8gn.16xlarge, r8gn.24xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8gn.48xlarge, r8gn.4xlarge, r8gn.8xlarge, r8gn.large, r8gn.medium, r8gn.metal-24xl, r8gn.metal-48xl, r8gn.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsi4g.4xlarge, i8g.4xlarge
Variantsr8a.4xlarge, r8g.4xlarge, r8gb.4xlarge, r8gd.4xlarge, r8i-flex.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge, r8ib.4xlarge, r8id.4xlarge, r8idb.4xlarge, r8idn.4xlarge, r8in.4xlarge
OpenSearchi8g.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 3750GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance50 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.09x

Regional Prices

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r8gn.4xlarge
i8g.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a1.4352
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.6128
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.6368
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.6456
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.6456
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.6456
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.6544
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.6544
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a1.5128
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a1.5128
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a1.5128
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a1.5576
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a1.5928
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a1.5928
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a1.6104
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.6104
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a1.3728
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.45741.3728
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.45741.3728
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