i2.large vs r5a.large

Instance Typei2.larger5a.large
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedMemory 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
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
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory15 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturen/ax86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)AMD EPYC 7571
Clock Speed2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core02
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarger5a.12xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5a.24xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5a.large, r5a.xlarge
Generationsi2.large, i3.large, i4i.large, i7i.larger5a.large, r6a.large, r7a.large, r8a.large
Variantsr5.large, r5ad.large, r5b.large, r5d.large, r5dn.large, r5n.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units7
Instance Storage1 x 800 SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth650 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput81.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3600 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces3
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface10
IPv6 Addresses per Interface10
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price DiffInfinityx

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
i2.large
r5a.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a0.0720
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a0.1130
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.1360
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.1360
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.1360
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.1370
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.1370
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.1240
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.1260
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.1270
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.1330
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.1330
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.1330
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.1360
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.1360
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.1130
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a0.1130
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