i4i.xlarge vs i2.xlarge

Instance Typei4i.xlargei2.xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsNoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
4 – Generation
i – Intel processor
xlarge – 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
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory32 GiB30.5 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed3.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsi4i.xlarge, i7i.xlargei2.xlarge, i3.xlarge, i4i.xlarge, i7i.xlarge
Variantsi4g.xlarge
OpenSearchi4i.xlarge.searchi2.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units14
Instance Storage1 x 937 NVMe SSD1 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBps750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1250 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput156.25 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance5000 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitModerate
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.40x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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On Demand
Geography
Region
i4i.xlarge
i2.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.35900.9380
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.3780n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.3890n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.3890n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.3970n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.3980n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.3980n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.3980n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.4030n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.4030n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.4030n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.36000.9380
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.4090n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.4110n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.4110n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.4110n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.4110n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.4140n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.4140n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.4160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.4160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.4320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.36200.9670
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.4500n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.4510n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.4530n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.5480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.37001.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.37001.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.37801.0130
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.37801.0180
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.37801.0180
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.37801.0230
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.34300.8530
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.34300.8530
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.34300.8530
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