r5b.metal vs i3en.metal

Instance Typer5b.metali3en.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
5 – Generation
b – EBS optimized
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
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs9696
Memory768 GiB768 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed3.1 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5b.12xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5b.24xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5b.4xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5b.large, r5b.metal, r5b.xlargei3en.12xlarge, i3en.24xlarge, i3en.2xlarge, i3en.3xlarge, i3en.6xlarge, i3en.large, i3en.metal, i3en.xlarge
Variantsr5.metal, r5d.metal, r5dn.metal, r5n.metali3.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only8 x 7500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput61440 MBps14000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth60000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput7500 Mbps2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance260000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance260000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth60000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput7500 Mbps2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.52x

Regional Prices

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r5b.metal
i3en.metal
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)7.581111.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)8.688012.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)11.376012.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a12.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a12.5860
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a12.6000
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a12.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a12.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a12.7680
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a12.7680
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a12.7680
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)7.824011.3900
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a12.9600
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a13.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a13.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a13.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a13.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a13.1040
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a13.1040
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a13.1420
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a13.2000
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a13.6580
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)8.016011.4910
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a14.2560
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a14.2560
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a14.3190
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a17.2800
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)8.400011.7070
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)8.400011.7070
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)8.544012.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)8.544012.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)8.544012.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)8.688012.0000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)7.152010.8480
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)7.152010.8480
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)7.152010.8480
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