i4g.4xlarge vs i2.4xlarge

Instance Typei4g.4xlargei2.4xlarge
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.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
4xlarge – 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
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory128 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi4g.16xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge, i4g.large, i4g.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsi4g.4xlarge, i8g.4xlargei2.4xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i7i.4xlarge
Variantsi4i.4xlarge
OpenSearchi4g.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units53
Instance Storage1 x 3750 SSD4 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBps1500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth5000 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput625 Mbps250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 25 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.69x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
i4g.4xlarge
i2.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.36163.7510
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.36163.7510
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.48103.8670
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.48104.0020
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.97284.0020
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a4.0510
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a4.0700
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a4.0700
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a4.0920
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.23553.4100
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.23553.4100
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.23553.4100
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