r3.8xlarge vs is4gen.8xlarge

Instance Typer3.8xlargeis4gen.8xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
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
3 – Generation
8xlarge – 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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory244 GiB192 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Generationsr3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarge
RDSdb.r3.8xlarge
OpenSearchr3.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units104
Instance Storage2 x 320 SSD4 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput19000 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 Performance10 Gigabit50 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.61x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r3.8xlarge
is4gen.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.96405.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.5970n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.96405.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.03205.2400
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.19205.3652
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.19205.3652
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.19205.4264
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.19205.5080
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.19205.5284
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.20105.5284
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.65604.6104
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.66004.6104
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.66004.6104
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