r5a.2xlarge vs i4g.2xlarge

Instance Typer5a.2xlargei4g.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
5 – Generation
a – AMD 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
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5a.12xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5a.24xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5a.large, r5a.xlargei4g.16xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge, i4g.large, i4g.xlarge
Generationsr5a.2xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r8a.2xlargei4g.2xlarge, i8g.2xlarge
Variantsr5.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5n.2xlargei4i.2xlarge
OpenSearchi4g.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1875 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1580 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput197.5 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8333 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 12 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 Diff1.00x1.38x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r5a.2xlarge
i4g.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2860n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.45200.6808
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.5440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.5440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.5440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.5480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.5480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.7240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.49600.6808
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.50400.7405
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.50800.7405
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.53200.9864
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.5320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.5320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.5440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.5440n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.45200.6178
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.45200.6178
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.6178
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