r4.2xlarge vs i8ge.2xlarge

Instance Typer4.2xlargei8ge.2xlarge
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
2xlarge – 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
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory61 GiB64 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.xlargei8ge.12xlarge, i8ge.18xlarge, i8ge.24xlarge, i8ge.2xlarge, i8ge.3xlarge, i8ge.48xlarge, i8ge.6xlarge, i8ge.large, i8ge.metal-24xl, i8ge.metal-48xl, i8ge.xlarge
Generationsr3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
Variantsi8g.2xlarge
RDSdb.r4.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.2xlarge
OpenSearchr4.2xlarge.searchi8ge.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 2500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1600 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1700 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput212.5 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1700 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput212.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
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 Diff1.00x1.70x

Regional Prices

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r4.2xlarge
i8ge.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.54800.9954
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.64001.1172
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.64001.1340
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.64001.1382
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.64021.1382
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.12001.1466
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.1466
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.2537
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.58401.0248
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.59281.0248
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.59281.0500
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.62401.0500
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.62401.0794
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.63841.1046
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.63841.1046
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.64001.1172
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.53200.9492
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.53200.9492
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.53200.9492
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