i8ge.6xlarge vs x1e.8xlarge

Instance Typei8ge.6xlargex1e.8xlarge
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
6xlarge – 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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs2432
Memory192 GiB976 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.8xlarge
OpenSearchi8ge.6xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units91
Instance Storage2 x 7500 NVMe SSD1 x 960 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBps3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7500 Mbps3500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput937.5 Mbps437.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps3500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps437.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance37.5 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces104
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.68x

Regional Prices

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i8ge.6xlarge
x1e.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.98626.8800
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.35169.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.40209.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.41469.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.414613.0050
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.4398n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)3.4398n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)3.7611n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.07447.3340
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.07448.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.15008.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.15008.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.23829.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.31389.5200
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.31389.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.35169.6720
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.84766.6720
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.84766.6720
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.84766.6720
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