x8i.8xlarge vs p3.8xlarge

Instance Typex8i.8xlargep3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedGPU instance
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
GPU intensive tasks like machine/deep learning, high-performance computing

p – Performance / GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) accelerated
3 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory512 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64n/a
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core20
Accelerators
GPUnono
GPUs4
Inference Acceleratornono
Accelerator Memory64 GiB
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.xlargep3.16xlarge, p3.2xlarge, p3.8xlarge
Generationsp2.8xlarge, p3.8xlarge
Variantsx8g.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance15000 Megabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces10
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.37x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
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On Demand
Geography
Region
x8i.8xlarge
p3.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.612513.2200
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)3.993013.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)4.201614.3560
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)4.201614.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)4.201615.2920
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)4.410216.7760
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)4.411516.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)4.569316.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)4.901916.9360
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)3.501312.2400
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.501312.2400
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)3.501312.2400
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