r8g.8xlarge vs i8g.8xlarge

Instance Typer8g.8xlargei8g.8xlarge
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
8xlarge – 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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory256 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr8g.12xlarge, r8g.16xlarge, r8g.24xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8g.48xlarge, r8g.4xlarge, r8g.8xlarge, r8g.large, r8g.medium, r8g.metal-24xl, r8g.metal-48xl, r8g.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsr6g.8xlarge, r7g.8xlarge, r8g.8xlargei4g.8xlarge, i8g.8xlarge
Variantsr8a.8xlarge, r8gb.8xlarge, r8gd.8xlarge, r8gn.8xlarge, r8i-flex.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarge, r8ib.8xlarge, r8id.8xlarge, r8idb.8xlarge, r8idn.8xlarge, r8in.8xlarge
SageMakerml.r8g.8xlarge
RDSdb.r8g.8xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r8g.8xlarge
OpenSearchr8g.8xlarge.searchi8g.8xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r8g.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 3750GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance15 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 Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.47x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r8g.8xlarge
i8g.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)1.3213n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.3213n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.88512.8704
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.10853.2256
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.10943.2736
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.20903.2912
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.21413.2912
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.21413.2912
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.25903.3088
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.25923.3088
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.25924.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.2592n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.2739n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.88513.0256
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)2.2739n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)2.2739n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)2.2739n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)2.2739n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)2.2739n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)2.3203n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)2.3722n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)2.4992n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)2.5014n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)2.5133n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.93283.0256
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)2.9997n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.93283.0256
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.97923.1152
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.00463.1856
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.06463.1856
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.06463.2208
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.09443.2208
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a2.7456
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.88512.7456
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.7456
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