i2.large vs r5n.large

Instance Typei2.larger5n.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
n – Network and EBS optimized
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory15 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturen/ax86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core02
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarger5n.12xlarge, r5n.16xlarge, r5n.24xlarge, r5n.2xlarge, r5n.4xlarge, r5n.8xlarge, r5n.large, r5n.metal, r5n.xlarge
Generationsi2.large, i3.large, i4i.large, i7i.larger5n.large, r6in.large, r8in.large
Variantsr5.large, r5a.large, r5ad.large, r5b.large, r5d.large, r5dn.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
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 Performance18750 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
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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Per Hour
Linux
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On Demand
Geography
Region
i2.large
r5n.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a0.1530
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.1780
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.1780
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.1790
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.1790
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.1990
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.2020
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.2360
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.1590
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.1630
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.1670
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.1690
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.1750
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.1750
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.1750
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.1780
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.1490
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a0.1490
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.1490
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