r5.large vs i3en.large

Instance Typer5.largei3en.large
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
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
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory16 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed3.1 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5.12xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r5.24xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r5.large, r5.metal, r5.xlargei3en.12xlarge, i3en.24xlarge, i3en.2xlarge, i3en.3xlarge, i3en.6xlarge, i3en.large, i3en.metal, i3en.xlarge
Generationsr3.large, r4.large, r5.large, r6i.large, r7i.large, r8i.large
Variantsr5a.large, r5ad.large, r5b.large, r5d.large, r5dn.large, r5n.largei3.large
SageMakerml.r5.largeml.i3en.large
RDSdb.r5.large, db.r5.large.tpc1.mem2x
DocumentDBdb.r5.large
OpenSearchr5.large.search
ElastiCachecache.r5.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units1010
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1250 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 4750 MBpsup to 3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth650 Mbps576 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput81.25 Mbps72.1 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3600 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance18750 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.78x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
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On Demand
Geography
Region
r5.large
i3en.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.13000.2370
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.14800.2500
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.14800.2570
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.14800.2570
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.15100.2620
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.15100.2630
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.15100.2630
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.15100.2630
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.15200.2660
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.15200.2660
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.15200.2660
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.13000.2370
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.15200.2700
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.15200.2710
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.15200.2710
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.15500.2710
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.15500.2710
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.16700.2730
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.16700.2730
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.16800.2740
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.20100.2750
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.2850
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.13400.2390
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.2970
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.2970
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.2980
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a0.3600
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.13800.2440
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.13800.2440
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.14000.2500
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.14100.2500
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.14100.2500
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.14800.2500
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.12600.2260
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.12600.2260
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.12600.2260
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