i3.2xlarge vs i2.2xlarge

Instance Typei3.2xlargei2.2xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsNoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

iIOPS / storage optimized
3 – Generation
2xlarge – 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.

iIOPS / storage optimized
2 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory61 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsi2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlargei2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsi3en.2xlarge
OpenSearchi3.2xlarge.searchi2.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units3127
Instance Storage1 x 1900 NVMe SSD2 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMesupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput1750 MBps1500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1700 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput212.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1700 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput212.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.61x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
i3.2xlarge
i2.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.65201.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.7240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.7240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.7320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.7320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.7320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.7440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.7480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.7480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.7480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.7480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.68801.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.7520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.7520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.7570n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.7570n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.8180n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.8200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.8240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.9960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.68801.9330
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.68802.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.68802.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.70802.0260
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.70802.0350
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.72202.0350
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.72402.0460
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.62401.7050
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.62401.7050
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.62401.7050
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