r5b.2xlarge vs i3.2xlarge

Instance Typer5b.2xlargei3.2xlarge
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
5 – Generation
b – EBS optimized
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
Memory64 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5b.12xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5b.24xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5b.4xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5b.large, r5b.metal, r5b.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsr5b.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlargei2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsr5.2xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5n.2xlargei3en.2xlarge
RDSdb.r5b.2xlarge, db.r5b.2xlarge.tpc1.mem2x, db.r5b.2xlarge.tpc2.mem4x, db.r5b.2xlarge.tpc2.mem8x
OpenSearchi3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 128000 MBps1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth5000 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput625 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance21667 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance43333 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 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 Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.06x

Regional Prices

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r5b.2xlarge
i3.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.63180.6520
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.72400.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.94800.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.7320
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)0.65200.6880
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)0.66800.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.70000.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.70000.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.71200.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.71200.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.71200.7220
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.72400.7240
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.59600.6240
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.59600.6240
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.59600.6240
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