i2.large vs is4gen.large

Instance Typei2.largeis4gen.large
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedStorage optimized
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
large – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

is – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to six ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory15 GiB12 GiB
CPU Architecturen/aarm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core01
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Generationsi2.large, i3.large, i4i.large, i7i.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units7
Instance Storage1 x 800 SSD1 x 1875 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput156.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance5000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces3
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface10
IPv6 Addresses per Interface10
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price DiffInfinityx

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
i2.large
is4gen.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a0.3188
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.3188
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.3275
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.3353
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.3353
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.3392
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.3443
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.3455
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.3455
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.2882
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a0.2882
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.2882
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