r5ad.8xlarge vs is4gen.8xlarge

Instance Typer5ad.8xlargeis4gen.8xlarge
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
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
d – Instance store volume
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
Memory256 GiB192 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5ad.12xlarge, r5ad.16xlarge, r5ad.24xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5ad.4xlarge, r5ad.8xlarge, r5ad.large, r5ad.xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Variantsr5.8xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5d.8xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5n.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage2 x 600 NVMe SSD4 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps19000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth4750 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput593.75 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit50 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.17x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r5ad.8xlarge
is4gen.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.3290n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.09605.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.5440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.5440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.5440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.3280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.30405.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.33605.2400
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.36805.3652
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.44805.3652
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.46405.4264
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.52805.5080
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.52805.5284
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.52805.5284
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.09604.6104
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.09604.6104
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a4.6104
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