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x8g.medium vs is4gen.medium

Instance Typex8g.mediumis4gen.medium
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
g – AWS Graviton processor
medium – 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
medium – Size
vCPUs11
Memory16 GiB6 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesx8g.12xlarge, x8g.16xlarge, x8g.24xlarge, x8g.2xlarge, x8g.48xlarge, x8g.4xlarge, x8g.8xlarge, x8g.large, x8g.medium, x8g.metal-24xl, x8g.metal-48xl, x8g.xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 937 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBpsup to 9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth315 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput39.375 Mbps78.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance2500 IOPS2500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12.5 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces22
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface44
IPv6 Addresses per Interface44
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.47x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
x8g.medium
is4gen.medium
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.11120.1594
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.11720.1594
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.13660.1638
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.1677
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.1677
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.1696
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.1721
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.1728
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.1728
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.09770.1441
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.09770.1441
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.09770.1441
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