x8i.8xlarge vs is4gen.8xlarge

Instance Typex8i.8xlargeis4gen.8xlarge
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
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
Memory512 GiB192 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.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps19000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance15000 Megabit50 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 Diff1.00x1.19x

Regional Prices

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x8i.8xlarge
is4gen.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.61255.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.0770n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)5.0770n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)5.0770n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)5.0770n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.99305.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)4.20165.2400
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)4.20165.3652
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)4.20165.3652
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)4.41025.4264
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)4.41155.5080
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)4.56935.5284
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)4.90195.5284
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)3.50134.6104
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.50134.6104
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)3.50134.6104
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