r7i.16xlarge vs r4.16xlarge

Instance Typer7i.16xlarger4.16xlarge
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
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
16xlarge – 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
4 – Generation
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory512 GiB488 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed3.2 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr7i.12xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r7i.24xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r7i.48xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r7i.large, r7i.metal-24xl, r7i.metal-48xl, r7i.xlarger4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarge
Generationsr6i.16xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r8i.16xlarger4.16xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r6i.16xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r8i.16xlarge
Variantsr7a.16xlarge, r7g.16xlarge, r7gd.16xlarge, r7iz.16xlarge
SageMakerml.r7i.16xlarge
RDSdb.r7i.16xlargedb.r4.16xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.16xlarge
OpenSearchr7i.16xlarge.searchr4.16xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput20000 MBps12000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth20000 Mbps14000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2500 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS75000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS75000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth20000 Mbps14000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2500 Mbps1750 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25000 Megabit20 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.05x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
r7i.16xlarge
r4.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.34114.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)4.73765.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)4.73765.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)4.97285.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)4.97285.1216
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)4.97288.9600
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)5.0736n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)5.0736n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)5.0736n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)5.0736n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)5.1072n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)4.34114.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)5.1072n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)5.1072n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)5.1072n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)5.1072n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)5.1072n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)5.3274n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)6.7536n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)4.36804.7424
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)4.36804.7424
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)4.44544.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)4.50244.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)4.59655.1072
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)4.63685.1072
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)4.70405.1200
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.23364.2560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.23364.2560
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.23364.2560
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