r7i.12xlarge vs x1.16xlarge

Instance Typer7i.12xlargex1.16xlarge
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
12xlarge – 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
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs4864
Memory384 GiB976 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)High Frequency Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 (Haswell)
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.xlargex1.16xlarge, x1.32xlarge
Generationsr6i.12xlarge, r7i.12xlarge, r8i.12xlargex1.16xlarge, x8i.16xlarge
Variantsr7a.12xlarge, r7g.12xlarge, r7gd.12xlarge, r7iz.12xlargex1e.16xlarge
SageMakerml.r7i.12xlarge
RDSdb.r7i.12xlargedb.x1.16xlarge
OpenSearchr7i.12xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units174.5
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1920 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput15000 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth15000 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1875 Mbps875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance60000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth15000 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1875 Mbps875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance18750 MegabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.40x

Regional Prices

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r7i.12xlarge
x1.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.25586.8810
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.55329.6710
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.55329.6710
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.72969.6710
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.72969.6710
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.72969.6710
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)3.805210.6380
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)3.805213.0050
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)3.8052n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)3.8052n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)3.8304n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.25587.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.8304n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.8304n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.8304n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.8304n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.8304n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.9955n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)5.0652n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.27608.0030
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.27608.0030
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.33418.0030
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.37688.4030
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.44748.4030
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.47769.3370
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.52809.5240
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)3.17526.6690
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.17526.6690
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)3.17526.6690
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