r4.xlarge vs r8gb.xlarge

Instance Typer4.xlarger8gb.xlarge
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
xlarge – 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
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory30.5 GiB32 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.xlarger8gb.12xlarge, r8gb.16xlarge, r8gb.24xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gb.48xlarge, r8gb.4xlarge, r8gb.8xlarge, r8gb.large, r8gb.medium, r8gb.metal-24xl, r8gb.metal-48xl, r8gb.xlarge
Generationsr3.xlarge, r4.xlarge, r5.xlarge, r6i.xlarge, r7i.xlarge, r8i.xlarge
Variantsr8a.xlarge, r8g.xlarge, r8gd.xlarge, r8gn.xlarge, r8i-flex.xlarge, r8i.xlarge, r8ib.xlarge, r8id.xlarge, r8idb.xlarge, r8idn.xlarge, r8in.xlarge
RDSdb.r4.xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.xlarge
OpenSearchr4.xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units16
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput800 MBpsup to 25000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth850 Mbps6250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput106.25 Mbps781.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance6000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth850 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput106.25 Mbps3125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 26.667 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.15x

Regional Prices

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r4.xlarge
r8gb.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.2740n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.3200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.3200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.3200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.3201n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.5600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.2920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.2964n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.2964n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.3120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.3120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.3192n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.3192n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.3200n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.2660n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.26600.3644
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.26600.3644
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