r8i.8xlarge vs r3.8xlarge

Instance Typer8i.8xlarger3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedMemory 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
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
8xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
High-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
3 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory256 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed3.9 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr8i.12xlarge, r8i.16xlarge, r8i.24xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8i.32xlarge, r8i.48xlarge, r8i.4xlarge, r8i.8xlarge, r8i.96xlarge, r8i.large, r8i.metal-48xl, r8i.metal-96xl, r8i.xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsr6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarger3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarge
Variantsr8a.8xlarge, r8g.8xlarge, r8gb.8xlarge, r8gd.8xlarge, r8gn.8xlarge, r8i-flex.8xlarge, r8ib.8xlarge, r8id.8xlarge, r8idb.8xlarge, r8idn.8xlarge, r8in.8xlarge
RDSdb.r8i.8xlargedb.r3.8xlarge
OpenSearchr3.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units104
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 320 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput10000 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 Interfaces108
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.24x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
r8i.8xlarge
r3.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.27902.9640
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.61075.5970
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.6107n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.6107n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.6637n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.6637n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.6637n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.6813n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.6813n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.6813n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.6813n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.29332.9640
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)2.7360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)2.7968n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)2.9494n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)2.9635n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.5456n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.29333.0320
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.36383.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.43443.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.43443.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.46963.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.48723.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.48723.2010
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.22272.6560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.22272.6600
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.22272.6600
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