x8i.4xlarge vs is4gen.4xlarge

Instance Typex8i.4xlargeis4gen.4xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsIn-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
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
4xlarge – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

is – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to six ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory256 GiB96 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed3.9 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesx8i.12xlarge, x8i.16xlarge, x8i.24xlarge, x8i.2xlarge, x8i.32xlarge, x8i.48xlarge, x8i.4xlarge, x8i.64xlarge, x8i.8xlarge, x8i.96xlarge, x8i.large, x8i.metal-48xl, x8i.metal-96xl, x8i.xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Variantsx8g.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBps9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth5000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput625 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 15000 Megabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.19x

Regional Prices

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x8i.4xlarge
is4gen.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.80622.5500
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.5385n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.5385n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.5385n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.5385n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.99652.5500
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.10082.6200
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.10082.6826
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.10082.6826
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.20512.7132
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.20582.7540
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.28462.7642
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.45102.7642
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.75062.3052
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.75062.3052
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.75062.3052
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