r6i.2xlarge vs i3en.2xlarge

Instance Typer6i.2xlargei3en.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
6 – Generation
i – Intel processor
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
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed3.5 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr6i.12xlarge, r6i.16xlarge, r6i.24xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r6i.32xlarge, r6i.4xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r6i.large, r6i.metal, r6i.xlargei3en.12xlarge, i3en.24xlarge, i3en.2xlarge, i3en.3xlarge, i3en.6xlarge, i3en.large, i3en.metal, i3en.xlarge
Generationsr6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
Variantsr6a.2xlarge, r6g.2xlarge, r6gd.2xlarge, r6id.2xlarge, r6idn.2xlarge, r6in.2xlargei3.2xlarge
SageMakerml.r6i.2xlargeml.i3en.2xlarge
RDSdb.r6i.2xlarge, db.r6i.2xlarge.tpc1.mem2x, db.r6i.2xlarge.tpc2.mem4x, db.r6i.2xlarge.tpc2.mem8x
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units37
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 2500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps2307 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps288.3875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12500 MegabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.80x

Regional Prices

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r6i.2xlarge
i3en.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.51680.9480
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.56001.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.56401.0280
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HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.59201.0490
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.59201.0500
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.59221.0520
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.60401.0520
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.60401.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.60401.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.60801.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.51680.9490
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.60801.0800
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.60801.0840
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.60801.0840
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.60801.0840
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.62041.0840
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.62041.0920
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.63421.0920
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.66801.0950
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.66881.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.67201.1380
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.52000.9580
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.80401.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a1.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a1.1930
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a1.4400
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.52000.9760
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.52920.9760
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.53601.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.54721.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.55201.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.55201.0000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.50400.9040
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.50400.9040
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.50400.9040
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