r7i.metal-48xl vs i8g.metal-48xl

Instance Typer7i.metal-48xli8g.metal-48xl
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
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
metal-48xl – Bare metal
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
metal-48xl – Bare metal
vCPUs192192
Memory1536 GiB1536 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.2 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr7i.12xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r7i.24xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r7i.48xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r7i.large, r7i.metal-24xl, r7i.metal-48xl, r7i.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsr7i.metal-48xl, r8i.metal-48xl
Variantsr7a.metal-48xli8ge.metal-48xl
RDSdb.r7i.metal-48xl
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only12 x 3750GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput40000 MBps60000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth40000 Mbps60000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput5000 Mbps7500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance240000 IOPS240000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance240000 IOPS240000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth40000 Mbps60000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput5000 Mbps7500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance50000 MegabitUp to 100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesyes
EFA Max Interfaces11
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.31x

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r7i.metal-48xl
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