r9gd.16xlarge vs im4gn.16xlarge

Instance Typer9gd.16xlargeim4gn.16xlarge
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
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
16xlarge – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

im – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to four ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory512 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton5 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed3.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr9gd.12xlarge, r9gd.16xlarge, r9gd.24xlarge, r9gd.2xlarge, r9gd.48xlarge, r9gd.4xlarge, r9gd.8xlarge, r9gd.large, r9gd.medium, r9gd.metal-48xl, r9gd.xlargeim4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge
Generationsr6gd.16xlarge, r7gd.16xlarge, r8gd.16xlarge, r9gd.16xlarge
Variantsr9g.16xlarge
OpenSearchim4gn.16xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage1 x 3800 NVMe SSD4 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput24000 MBps38000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth24000 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput3000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance96000 IOPS160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance96000 IOPS160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth24000 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput3000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance34 Gigabit100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1615
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface6450
IPv6 Addresses per Interface6450
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.21x

Regional Prices

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r9gd.16xlarge
im4gn.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)6.15876.4176
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a6.9773
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a6.9773
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a6.4177
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a6.4177
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a6.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a6.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a6.7535
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a6.7535
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a6.8281
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a6.9400
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)5.12585.8207
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)5.12585.8207
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)5.12585.8207
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