r4.8xlarge vs x1e.8xlarge

Instance Typer4.8xlargex1e.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
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
1 – Generation
e – Extra storage or memory
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory244 GiB976 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)High Frequency Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlargex1e.16xlarge, x1e.2xlarge, x1e.32xlarge, x1e.4xlarge, x1e.8xlarge, x1e.xlarge
Generationsr3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarge
RDSdb.r4.8xlargedb.x1e.8xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.8xlarge
OpenSearchr4.8xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units9791
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 960 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput6000 MBps3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7000 Mbps3500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput875 Mbps437.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance37500 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance37500 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7000 Mbps3500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput875 Mbps437.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces84
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.42x

Regional Prices

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r4.8xlarge
x1e.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.19206.8800
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.56009.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.56009.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.56009.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.560813.0050
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)4.4800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.33607.3340
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.37128.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.37128.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.49608.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.49609.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.55369.5200
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.55369.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.56009.6720
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.12806.6720
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.12806.6720
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.12806.6720
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