i8g.8xlarge vs im4gn.8xlarge

Instance Typei8g.8xlargeim4gn.8xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsNoSQL 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
8xlarge – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

im – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to four ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory256 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlargeim4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge
Generationsi4g.8xlarge, i8g.8xlarge
OpenSearchi8g.8xlarge.searchim4gn.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance Storage2 x 3750GB2 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps19000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 25 Gigabit50 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.03x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
i8g.8xlarge
im4gn.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.87043.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.22563.4887
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.27363.4887
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.2912n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.2912n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.2912n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)3.3088n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)3.3088n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)4.3840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.02563.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.02563.2088
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.02563.3040
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.11523.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.18563.3767
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.18563.3767
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.22083.4141
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.22083.4700
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.74562.9103
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.74562.9103
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.74562.9103
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