vt1.3xlarge vs i2.4xlarge

Instance Typevt1.3xlargei2.4xlarge
Instance FamilyMedia AcceleratorStorage optimized
DetailsFast real-time video transcoding and cost-effective live video stream transcoding.

vt – Video transcoding
1 – Generation
3xlarge – 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
vCPUs1216
Memory24 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259CLIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesvt1.24xlarge, vt1.3xlarge, vt1.6xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsi2.4xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i7i.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units53
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput2375 MBps1500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2375 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput296.875 Mbps250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance3125 MegabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces48
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x5.36x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
vt1.3xlarge
i2.4xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)0.7341n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.81823.7510
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a3.7510
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a3.8670
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a4.0020
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a4.0020
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)n/a3.4100
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.65003.4100
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.65003.4100
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