d2.xlarge vs i2.xlarge

Instance Typed2.xlargei2.xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsMassively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehousing, MapReduce/Hadoop computing, distributed/file network systems, and log/data-processing applications.

d – Disk / storage optimized
2 – Generation
xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
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
2 – Generation
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory30.5 GiB30.5 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.4 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesd2.2xlarge, d2.4xlarge, d2.8xlarge, d2.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsd2.xlarge, d3.xlargei2.xlarge, i3.xlarge, i4i.xlarge, i7i.xlarge
OpenSearchi2.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units1414
Instance Storage3 x 2000 HDD1 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput750 MBps750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth750 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput93.75 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance6000 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth750 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput93.75 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateModerate
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.20x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
d2.xlarge
i2.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.69800.9380
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.8270n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.8280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.8280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.8440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.8440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.8440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.8700n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.8700n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.8750n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.9570n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.73500.9380
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.75900.9670
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.77201.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.77201.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.77201.0130
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.78101.0180
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.79401.0180
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.80901.0230
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.69000.8530
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.69000.8530
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.69000.8530
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