r3.4xlarge vs i2.4xlarge

Instance Typer3.4xlargei2.4xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
High-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
3 – Generation
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
Memory122 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsr3.4xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r6i.4xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r8i.4xlargei2.4xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i7i.4xlarge
RDSdb.r3.4xlarge
OpenSearchr3.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units5253
Instance Storage1 x 320 SSD4 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupportedsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput1500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2000 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput250 Mbps250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2000 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput250 Mbps250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.38x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
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On Demand
Geography
Region
r3.4xlarge
i2.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.48203.7510
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.7990n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.48203.7510
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.51603.8670
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.59604.0020
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.59604.0020
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.59604.0510
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.59604.0700
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.59604.0700
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.60004.0920
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.32803.4100
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.33003.4100
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.33003.4100
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