r4.xlarge vs i8g.xlarge

Instance Typer4.xlargei8g.xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
High-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
4 – Generation
xlarge – 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
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory30.5 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsr3.xlarge, r4.xlarge, r5.xlarge, r6i.xlarge, r7i.xlarge, r8i.xlargei4g.xlarge, i8g.xlarge
Variantsi8ge.xlarge
RDSdb.r4.xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.xlarge
OpenSearchr4.xlarge.searchi8g.xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units16
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 937GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput800 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth850 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput106.25 Mbps156.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS5000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance6000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth850 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput106.25 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.25x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r4.xlarge
i8g.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.27400.3588
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.32000.4032
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.32000.4092
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.32000.4114
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.32010.4114
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.56000.4114
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.4136
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.4136
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.5480
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.29200.3782
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.29640.3782
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.29640.3782
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.31200.3894
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.31200.3982
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.31920.3982
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.31920.4026
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.32000.4026
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.26600.3432
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.26600.3432
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.26600.3432
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