x8g.12xlarge vs i8ge.12xlarge

Instance Typex8g.12xlargei8ge.12xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsIn-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
12xlarge – 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
e – Extra storage or memory
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs4848
Memory768 GiB384 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesx8g.12xlarge, x8g.16xlarge, x8g.24xlarge, x8g.2xlarge, x8g.48xlarge, x8g.4xlarge, x8g.8xlarge, x8g.large, x8g.medium, x8g.metal-24xl, x8g.metal-48xl, x8g.xlargei8ge.12xlarge, i8ge.18xlarge, i8ge.24xlarge, i8ge.2xlarge, i8ge.3xlarge, i8ge.48xlarge, i8ge.6xlarge, i8ge.large, i8ge.metal-24xl, i8ge.metal-48xl, i8ge.xlarge
Variantsx8aedz.12xlarge, x8i.12xlargei8g.12xlarge
OpenSearchi8ge.12xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 7500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput15360 MBps15000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth15000 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1875 Mbps1875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance60000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth15000 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1875 Mbps1875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance22.5 Gigabit75 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces812
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 Diff1.00x1.22x

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x8g.12xlarge
i8ge.12xlarge
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USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.68965.6952
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.68965.6952
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.68965.6952
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