i8g.8xlarge vs p3.8xlarge

Instance Typei8g.8xlargep3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedGPU instance
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
GPU intensive tasks like machine/deep learning, high-performance computing

p – Performance / GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) accelerated
3 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory256 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64n/a
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core10
Accelerators
GPUnono
GPUs4
Inference Acceleratornono
Accelerator Memory64 GiB
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.xlargep3.16xlarge, p3.2xlarge, p3.8xlarge
Generationsi4g.8xlarge, i8g.8xlargep2.8xlarge, p3.8xlarge
OpenSearchi8g.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance Storage2 x 3750GBEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 25 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces8
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface30
IPv6 Addresses per Interface30
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x4.60x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
i8g.8xlarge
p3.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.870413.2200
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.2256n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.2736n/a
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)3.025613.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.025614.3560
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.025614.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.115215.2920
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.185616.7760
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.185616.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.220816.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.220816.9360
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.745612.2400
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.745612.2400
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.745612.2400
Activate subscription to see all regions and unlock all features

Related Comparisons

Other instances worth weighing against these.