r8gb.metal-48xl vs i8g.metal-48xl

Instance Typer8gb.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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
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 Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.7 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr8gb.12xlarge, r8gb.16xlarge, r8gb.24xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gb.48xlarge, r8gb.4xlarge, r8gb.8xlarge, r8gb.large, r8gb.medium, r8gb.metal-24xl, r8gb.metal-48xl, r8gb.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Variantsr8a.metal-48xl, r8g.metal-48xl, r8gd.metal-48xl, r8gn.metal-48xl, r8i.metal-48xl, r8ib.metal-48xl, r8id.metal-48xl, r8idb.metal-48xl, r8idn.metal-48xl, r8in.metal-48xli8ge.metal-48xl
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only12 x 3750GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput300000 MBps60000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth300000 Mbps60000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput37500 Mbps7500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance1440000 IOPS240000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance1440000 IOPS240000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth300000 Mbps60000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput37500 Mbps7500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance400 GigabitUp to 100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces2415
Max Cards21
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesyes
EFA Max Interfaces21
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.09x

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