r7gd.metal vs i3.metal

Instance Typer7gd.metali3.metal
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
d – Instance store volume
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
3 – Generation
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs6464
Memory512 GiB488 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64n/a
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.6 GHz
Threads Per Core10
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr7gd.12xlarge, r7gd.16xlarge, r7gd.2xlarge, r7gd.4xlarge, r7gd.8xlarge, r7gd.large, r7gd.medium, r7gd.metal, r7gd.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsr6gd.metal, r7gd.metali3.metal, i4i.metal
Variantsr7g.metali3en.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201
Instance Storage2 x 1900 NVMe SSD8 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput20000 MBps14000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance30 Gigabit20 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces15
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportyesno
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.19x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
r7gd.metal
i3.metal
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)2.8160n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)2.8160n/a
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USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a4.9920
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USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a4.9920
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