u-18tb1.metal vs x8i.metal-96xl

Instance Typeu-18tb1.metalx8i.metal-96xl
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsLarge in-memory databases, such as SAP HANA production deployments.

u – Ultra high memory
metal – Bare metal
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
i – Intel processor
metal-96xl – Bare metal
vCPUs448384
Memory18432 GiB6144 GiB
CPU Architecturen/ax86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8280L (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core02
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesu-18tb1.112xlarge, u-18tb1.metalx8i.12xlarge, x8i.16xlarge, x8i.24xlarge, x8i.2xlarge, x8i.32xlarge, x8i.48xlarge, x8i.4xlarge, x8i.64xlarge, x8i.8xlarge, x8i.96xlarge, x8i.large, x8i.metal-48xl, x8i.metal-96xl, x8i.xlarge
Generationsu-12tb1.metal, u-18tb1.metal, u-24tb1.metal, u-6tb1.metal, u-9tb1.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput38000 MBps80000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth80000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance480000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance480000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth80000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput10000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance100 Gigabit100000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces24
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface64
IPv6 Addresses per Interface64
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price DiffInfinityx

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u-18tb1.metal
x8i.metal-96xl
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