i2.2xlarge vs p3.2xlarge

Instance Typei2.2xlargep3.2xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedGPU instance
DetailsObsolete. 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
2xlarge – Size
GPU intensive tasks like machine/deep learning, high-performance computing

p – Performance / GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) accelerated
3 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory61 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64n/a
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core20
Accelerators
GPUnono
GPUs1
Inference Acceleratornono
Accelerator Memory16 GiB
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlargep3.16xlarge, p3.2xlarge, p3.8xlarge
Generationsi2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
OpenSearchi2.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units2731
Instance Storage2 x 800 SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupported
Encryptionsupported
NVMeunsupported
Dedicated Throughput1500 MBps1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces4
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.91x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
i2.2xlarge
p3.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.87603.3050
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.87603.3660
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.93303.5890
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.00103.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.00103.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.02604.1940
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.03504.2340
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.03504.2340
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.04604.2340
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.70503.0600
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.70503.0600
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.70503.0600
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