r5dn.16xlarge vs i4i.16xlarge

Instance Typer5dn.16xlargei4i.16xlarge
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
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
16xlarge – 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
i – Intel processor
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory512 GiB512 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5dn.12xlarge, r5dn.16xlarge, r5dn.24xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5dn.4xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5dn.large, r5dn.metal, r5dn.xlargei4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlarge
Generationsr5dn.16xlarge, r6idn.16xlarge, r8idn.16xlargei4i.16xlarge, i7i.16xlarge
Variantsr5.16xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5ad.16xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5d.16xlarge, r5n.16xlargei4g.16xlarge
OpenSearchi4i.16xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage4 x 600 NVMe SSD4 x 3750 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth13600 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1700 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance60000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth13600 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1700 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance75 Gigabit35000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.04x

Regional Prices

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r5dn.16xlarge
i4i.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)5.66405.7380
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)6.49606.0540
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)6.52806.2300
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)7.07206.2300
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a6.3570
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a6.3710
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a6.3710
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a6.3710
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a6.4420
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a6.4420
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a6.4420
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)5.95205.7660
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a6.5470
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a6.5820
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a6.5820
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a6.5820
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a6.5820
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a6.6180
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a6.6180
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a6.6530
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a6.6530
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a6.9120
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)6.27205.7970
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a7.2020
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a7.2160
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a7.2510
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a8.7650
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)6.27205.9240
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)6.36805.9240
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)6.36806.0540
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)6.40006.0540
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)6.43206.0540
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)6.43206.0540
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)5.34405.4910
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)5.34405.4910
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)5.34405.4910
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