r7g.xlarge vs i2.xlarge

Instance Typer7g.xlargei2.xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsHigh-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
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton 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 Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.6 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr7g.12xlarge, r7g.16xlarge, r7g.2xlarge, r7g.4xlarge, r7g.8xlarge, r7g.large, r7g.medium, r7g.metal, r7g.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsr6g.xlarge, r7g.xlarge, r8g.xlargei2.xlarge, i3.xlarge, i4i.xlarge, i7i.xlarge
Variantsr7a.xlarge, r7gd.xlarge, r7i.xlarge, r7iz.xlarge
SageMakerml.r7g.xlarge
RDSdb.r7g.xlarge
OpenSearchr7g.xlarge.searchi2.xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r7g.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units14
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBps750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1250 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput156.25039999999998 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12500 MegabitModerate
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 Diff1.00x3.90x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r7g.xlarge
i2.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.1502n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1502n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.21420.9380
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.2380n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.2396n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.2397n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.2510n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.2516n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.2516n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.2517n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.2567n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.2567n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.2567n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.21420.9380
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.2567n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.2584n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.2584n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.2584n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.2584n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.2584n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.2584n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.2637n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.2637n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.2696n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.21960.9670
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.2840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.2842n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.2856n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.3409n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.21961.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.22491.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.22781.0130
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.23261.0180
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.23461.0180
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.23461.0230
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.8530
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.21420.8530
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.8530
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