r8g.2xlarge vs i8ge.2xlarge

Instance Typer8g.2xlargei8ge.2xlarge
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
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
Memory64 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr8g.12xlarge, r8g.16xlarge, r8g.24xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8g.48xlarge, r8g.4xlarge, r8g.8xlarge, r8g.large, r8g.medium, r8g.metal-24xl, r8g.metal-48xl, r8g.xlargei8ge.12xlarge, i8ge.18xlarge, i8ge.24xlarge, i8ge.2xlarge, i8ge.3xlarge, i8ge.48xlarge, i8ge.6xlarge, i8ge.large, i8ge.metal-24xl, i8ge.metal-48xl, i8ge.xlarge
Generationsr6g.2xlarge, r7g.2xlarge, r8g.2xlarge
Variantsr8a.2xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8i-flex.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge, r8id.2xlarge, r8idb.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge, r8in.2xlargei8g.2xlarge
SageMakerml.r8g.2xlarge
RDSdb.r8g.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r8g.2xlarge
OpenSearchr8g.2xlarge.searchi8ge.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r8g.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 2500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 15 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.00x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r8g.2xlarge
i8ge.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.3303n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.3303n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.47130.9954
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.52711.1172
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.52741.1340
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.55221.1382
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.55351.1382
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.55351.1466
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.56471.1466
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.56481.2537
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.5648n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.5648n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.5685n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.47131.0248
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.5685n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.5685n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.5685n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.5685n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.5685n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.5801n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.5930n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.6248n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.6254n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.6283n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.48321.0248
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.7499n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.48321.0500
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.49481.0500
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.50121.0794
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.51621.1046
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.51621.1046
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.52361.1172
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.9492
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.47130.9492
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.9492
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