im4gn.8xlarge vs p3.8xlarge

Instance Typeim4gn.8xlargep3.8xlarge
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.

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
8xlarge – Size
GPU intensive tasks like machine/deep learning, high-performance computing

p – Performance / GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) accelerated
3 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64n/a
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core10
Accelerators
GPUnono
GPUs4
Inference Acceleratornono
Accelerator Memory64 GiB
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesim4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlargep3.16xlarge, p3.2xlarge, p3.8xlarge
Generationsp2.8xlarge, p3.8xlarge
OpenSearchim4gn.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance Storage2 x 7500 SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput19000 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance50 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces8
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface30
IPv6 Addresses per Interface30
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x4.48x

Regional Prices

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Per Hour
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Geography
Region
im4gn.8xlarge
p3.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.208813.2200
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.4887n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.4887n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.208813.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.208814.3560
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.304014.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.376015.2920
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.376716.7760
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.376716.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.414116.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.470016.9360
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.910312.2400
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.910312.2400
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.910312.2400
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