r8idb.2xlarge vs i2.2xlarge

Instance Typer8idb.2xlargei2.2xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsHigh-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
d – Instance store volume
b – EBS optimized
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.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
2 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed3.9 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr8idb.12xlarge, r8idb.16xlarge, r8idb.24xlarge, r8idb.2xlarge, r8idb.32xlarge, r8idb.48xlarge, r8idb.4xlarge, r8idb.8xlarge, r8idb.96xlarge, r8idb.large, r8idb.metal-48xl, r8idb.metal-96xl, r8idb.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsi2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsr8a.2xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8i-flex.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge, r8id.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge, r8in.2xlarge
OpenSearchi2.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units27
Instance Storage1 x 474 NVMe SSD2 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 25000 MBps1500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth6250 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput781.25 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance120000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth25000 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput3125 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 26.66 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.87x

Regional Prices

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r8idb.2xlarge
i2.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.04461.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.04461.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.11761.9330
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.14002.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a2.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a2.0260
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a2.0350
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.0350
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.0460
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.93791.7050
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.93791.7050
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.93791.7050
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