r9gd.8xlarge vs i8g.8xlarge

Instance Typer9gd.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
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
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 Graviton5 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr9gd.12xlarge, r9gd.16xlarge, r9gd.24xlarge, r9gd.2xlarge, r9gd.48xlarge, r9gd.4xlarge, r9gd.8xlarge, r9gd.large, r9gd.medium, r9gd.metal-48xl, r9gd.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsr6gd.8xlarge, r7gd.8xlarge, r8gd.8xlarge, r9gd.8xlargei4g.8xlarge, i8g.8xlarge
Variantsr9g.8xlarge
OpenSearchi8g.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage1 x 1900 NVMe SSD2 x 3750GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput12000 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth12000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1500 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance48000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance48000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth12000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1500 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance17 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces108
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.18x

Regional Prices

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r9gd.8xlarge
i8g.8xlarge
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HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a3.2208
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a3.2208
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.56292.7456
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.56292.7456
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.56292.7456
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