r4.8xlarge vs r8i.8xlarge

Instance Typer4.8xlarger8i.8xlarge
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
8xlarge – Size
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
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory244 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarger8i.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.xlarge
Generationsr3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarger6i.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.r4.8xlargedb.r8i.8xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.8xlarge
OpenSearchr4.8xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput6000 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput875 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance37500 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance37500 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput875 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit15000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces810
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.02x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r4.8xlarge
r8i.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.19202.2790
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.56002.6107
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.56002.6107
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.56002.6107
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.56082.6637
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)4.48002.6637
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.6637
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.6813
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.6813
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.6813
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.6813
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.33602.2933
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a2.7360
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a2.7968
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a2.9494
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a2.9635
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a3.5456
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.37122.2933
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.37122.3638
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.49602.4344
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.49602.4344
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.55362.4696
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.55362.4872
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.56002.4872
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.12802.2227
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.12802.2227
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.12802.2227
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