r4.large vs i3.large

Instance Typer4.largei3.large
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
large – 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
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory15.25 GiB15.25 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.large, r4.large, r5.large, r6i.large, r7i.large, r8i.largei2.large, i3.large, i4i.large, i7i.large
Variantsi3en.large
RDSdb.r4.large
DocumentDBdb.r4.large
OpenSearchr4.large.searchi3.large.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units88
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 475 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedsupported
Dedicated Throughput400 MBps425 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth425 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput53.125 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3000 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance3000 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth425 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput53.125 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.16x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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On Demand
Geography
Region
r4.large
i3.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.13700.1630
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.16000.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.16000.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.16000.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.16010.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.28000.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.1860
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.14600.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.2060
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.2490
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.14820.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.14820.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.15600.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.15600.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.15960.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.15960.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.16000.1810
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.13300.1560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.13300.1560
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.13300.1560
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