r4.2xlarge vs i3.2xlarge

Instance Typer4.2xlargei3.2xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
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
4 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
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
3 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory61 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsr3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlargei2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsi3en.2xlarge
RDSdb.r4.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.2xlarge
OpenSearchr4.2xlarge.searchi3.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units3131
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedsupported
Dedicated Throughput1600 MBps1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1700 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput212.5 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1700 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput212.5 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.16x

Regional Prices

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r4.2xlarge
i3.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.54800.6520
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.64000.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.64000.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.64000.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.64020.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.12000.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.7440
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.58400.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.8180
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.8200
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.8240
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.9960
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.59280.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.59280.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.62400.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.62400.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.63840.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.63840.7220
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.64000.7240
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.53200.6240
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.53200.6240
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.53200.6240
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