i8ge.3xlarge vs x1e.4xlarge

Instance Typei8ge.3xlargex1e.4xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsNoSQL 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
In-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
1 – Generation
e – Extra storage or memory
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1216
Memory96 GiB488 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorHigh Frequency Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi8ge.12xlarge, i8ge.18xlarge, i8ge.24xlarge, i8ge.2xlarge, i8ge.3xlarge, i8ge.48xlarge, i8ge.6xlarge, i8ge.large, i8ge.metal-24xl, i8ge.metal-48xl, i8ge.xlargex1e.16xlarge, x1e.2xlarge, x1e.32xlarge, x1e.4xlarge, x1e.8xlarge, x1e.xlarge
RDSdb.x1e.4xlarge
OpenSearchi8ge.3xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units47
Instance Storage1 x 7500 NVMe SSD1 x 480 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBps1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3750 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput468.75 Mbps218.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance15000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps218.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 25 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces64
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.68x

Regional Prices

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i8ge.3xlarge
x1e.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.49313.4400
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.67584.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.70104.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.70734.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.70736.5020
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.7199n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.7199n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)1.8806n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.53723.6670
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.53724.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.57504.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.57504.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.61914.6680
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.65694.7600
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.65694.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.67584.8360
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.42383.3360
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.42383.3360
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.42383.3360
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