a1.2xlarge vs i4i.2xlarge

Instance Typea1.2xlargei4i.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments.

a – ARM AWS Graviton Processor
1 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
4 – Generation
i – Intel processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargei4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlarge
Generationsi4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsi4g.2xlarge
OpenSearchi4i.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1875 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 12 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.53x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.2xlarge
i4i.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20400.7170
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.7790
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.7790
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.7950
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.8050
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.8050
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.8050
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23040.7210
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.8180
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.8270
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.8270
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.8640
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.23280.7250
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.9000
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.9020
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.9060
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a1.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23520.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25680.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.26640.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.7570
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.20400.6860
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.20400.6860
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.6860
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