h1.8xlarge
Amazon EC2 H1 instances are a new generation of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized instances designed for applications that require low cost, high disk throughput and high sequential disk I/O access to very large data sets.
The h1.8xlarge is a aws ec2 instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for ec2 workloads.
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 32 |
| Memory | 128 GiB |
| Physical Processor | Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) |
| Clock Speed | 2.3 GHz |
| CPU Architecture | 64-bit |
| GPU Memory | NA |
| Network | Value |
| Network Performance | 10 Gigabit |
| Enhanced Networking | Yes |
| Storage | Value |
| Storage | 4 x 2000 HDD |
| EBS Throughput | 7000 Mbps |
| Amazon | Value |
| Current Generation | Yes |
| Instance Type | h1.8xlarge |
| Family | Storage optimized |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| h1.2xlarge | 8 | 32 |
| h1.4xlarge | 16 | 64 |
| h1.8xlarge | 32 | 128 |
| h1.16xlarge | 64 | 256 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| m8i-flex.8xlarge | 32 | 128 GiB |
| m8gd.8xlarge | 32 | 128 GiB |
| m8g.8xlarge | 32 | 128 GiB |
| m8a.8xlarge | 32 | 128 GiB |
| m8i.8xlarge | 32 | 128 GiB |
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