i3.metal vs i4i.metal

Instance Typei3.metali4i.metal
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
3 – Generation
metal – Bare metal
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
4 – Generation
i – Intel processor
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs64128
Memory488 GiB1024 GiB
CPU Architecturen/ax86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core02
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlargei4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlarge
Generationsi3.metal, i4i.metal
Variantsi3en.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201
Instance Storage8 x 1900 NVMe SSD8 x 3750 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput14000 MBps40000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth40000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth40000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput5000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance20 Gigabit75000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces15
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.19x

Regional Prices

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i3.metal
i4i.metal
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)5.216011.4750
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.856012.1090
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USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.992010.9820
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.992010.9820
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.992010.9820
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