r8gb.4xlarge vs im4gn.4xlarge
| r8gb.4xlarge | im4gn.4xlarge |
| Memory optimized | Storage optimized |
| 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 8 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor b – EBS optimized 4xlarge – 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 4xlarge – Size |
| 16 | 16 |
| 128 GiB | 64 GiB |
| arm64 | arm64 |
| AWS Graviton4 Processor | AWS Graviton2 Processor |
| 2.8 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 1 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| r8gb.12xlarge, r8gb.16xlarge, r8gb.24xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gb.48xlarge, r8gb.4xlarge, r8gb.8xlarge, r8gb.large, r8gb.medium, r8gb.metal-24xl, r8gb.metal-48xl, r8gb.xlarge | im4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge |
| r8a.4xlarge, r8g.4xlarge, r8gd.4xlarge, r8gn.4xlarge, r8i-flex.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge, r8ib.4xlarge, r8id.4xlarge, r8idb.4xlarge, r8idn.4xlarge, r8in.4xlarge | |
| im4gn.4xlarge.search | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 7500 SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| 25000 MBps | 9500 MBps |
| 25000 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 3125 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| 120000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 120000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 25000 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 3125 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| 33.333 Gigabit | 25 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 30 |
| 30 | 30 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| yes | yes |
| 1.00x | 1.12x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | r8gb.4xlarge | im4gn.4xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 1.6044 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 1.7443 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 1.7443 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 1.6044 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 1.6044 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 1.6520 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 1.6880 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 1.6884 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 1.6884 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 1.7070 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 1.7350 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | n/a | 1.4552 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 1.4574 | 1.4552 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 1.4574 | 1.4552 |