r9gd.8xlarge vs is4gen.8xlarge

Instance Typer9gd.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
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton 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 Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton5 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed3.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr9gd.12xlarge, r9gd.16xlarge, r9gd.24xlarge, r9gd.2xlarge, r9gd.48xlarge, r9gd.4xlarge, r9gd.8xlarge, r9gd.large, r9gd.medium, r9gd.metal-48xl, r9gd.xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Generationsr6gd.8xlarge, r7gd.8xlarge, r8gd.8xlarge, r9gd.8xlarge
Variantsr9g.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage1 x 1900 NVMe SSD4 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput12000 MBps19000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth12000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1500 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance48000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance48000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth12000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1500 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance17 Gigabit50 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces108
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.92x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
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On Demand
Geography
Region
r9gd.8xlarge
is4gen.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.07945.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a5.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a5.2400
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a5.3652
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a5.3652
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a5.4264
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a5.5080
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a5.5284
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a5.5284
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.56294.6104
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.56294.6104
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.56294.6104
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