r5b.xlarge vs i3en.xlarge

Instance Typer5b.xlargei3en.xlarge
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
xlarge – 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
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory32 GiB32 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
Generationsr5b.xlarge, r8ib.xlarge
Variantsr5.xlarge, r5a.xlarge, r5ad.xlarge, r5d.xlarge, r5dn.xlarge, r5n.xlargei3.xlarge
SageMakerml.i3en.xlarge
RDSdb.r5b.xlarge, db.r5b.xlarge.tpc2.mem2x, db.r5b.xlarge.tpc2.mem4x
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 2500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBpsup to 3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps1153 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps144.2 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10833 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance43333 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp 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 Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.52x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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On Demand
Geography
Region
r5b.xlarge
i3en.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.31590.4740
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.36200.5000
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.47400.5140
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.5140
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.5240
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.5250
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.5260
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.5260
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.5320
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.5320
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.5320
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.32600.4750
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.5400
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.5420
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.5420
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.5420
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.5420
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.5460
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.5460
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.5480
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.5500
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.5690
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.33400.4790
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.5940
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.5940
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.5970
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a0.7200
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.35000.4880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.35000.4880
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.35600.5000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.35600.5000
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.35600.5000
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.36200.5000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.29800.4520
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.29800.4520
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.29800.4520
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