i8ge.xlarge vs p2.xlarge

Instance Typei8ge.xlargep2.xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedGPU instance
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
xlarge – Size
GPU intensive tasks like machine/deep learning, high-performance computing

p – Performance / GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) accelerated
2 – Generation
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory32 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64n/a
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core10
Accelerators
GPUnono
GPUs1
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.xlargep2.16xlarge, p2.8xlarge, p2.xlarge
Variantsi8g.xlarge
OpenSearchi8ge.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units16
Instance Storage1 x 2500 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBps750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput156.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance5000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 25 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces4
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.37x

Regional Prices

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On Demand
Geography
Region
i8ge.xlarge
p2.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.49770.9720
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.5586n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.5670n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.5691n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.5691n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.5733n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.5733n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.6269n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.51241.0800
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.51241.3260
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.52501.4650
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.52501.5420
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.53971.5420
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.55231.7180
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.55231.7180
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.5586n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.47460.9000
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.47460.9000
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.47460.9000
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