r3.4xlarge vs i8ge.3xlarge

Instance Typer3.4xlargei8ge.3xlarge
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
3 – Generation
4xlarge – 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
3xlarge – Size
vCPUs1612
Memory122 GiB96 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlargei8ge.12xlarge, i8ge.18xlarge, i8ge.24xlarge, i8ge.2xlarge, i8ge.3xlarge, i8ge.48xlarge, i8ge.6xlarge, i8ge.large, i8ge.metal-24xl, i8ge.metal-48xl, i8ge.xlarge
Generationsr3.4xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r6i.4xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge
RDSdb.r3.4xlarge
OpenSearchr3.4xlarge.searchi8ge.3xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units52
Instance Storage1 x 320 SSD1 x 7500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2000 Mbps3750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput250 Mbps468.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance16000 IOPS15000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces86
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.01x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
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On Demand
Geography
Region
r3.4xlarge
i8ge.3xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.48201.4931
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.79901.6758
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.7010
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.7073
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.7073
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.7199
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.7199
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.8806
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.48201.5372
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.51601.5372
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.59601.5750
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.59601.5750
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.59601.6191
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.59601.6569
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.59601.6569
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.60001.6758
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.32801.4238
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.33001.4238
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.33001.4238
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