r4.16xlarge vs x8g.16xlarge

Instance Typer4.16xlargex8g.16xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsObsolete. 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
In-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
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory488 GiB1024 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlargex8g.12xlarge, x8g.16xlarge, x8g.24xlarge, x8g.2xlarge, x8g.48xlarge, x8g.4xlarge, x8g.8xlarge, x8g.large, x8g.medium, x8g.metal-24xl, x8g.metal-48xl, x8g.xlarge
Generationsr4.16xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r6i.16xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r8i.16xlarge
Variantsx8i.16xlarge
RDSdb.r4.16xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.16xlarge
OpenSearchr4.16xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput12000 MBps20480 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth14000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance75000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance75000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth14000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance20 Gigabit30 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.40x

Regional Prices

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r4.16xlarge
x8g.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.38407.1187
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.1200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)5.1200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)5.1200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)5.1216n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)8.9600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)4.67207.4880
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)4.74247.5034
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)4.74248.7392
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)4.9920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)4.9920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)5.1072n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)5.1072n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)5.1200n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.25606.2528
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.25606.2528
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.25606.2528
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