m5d.2xlarge vs i4i.2xlarge

Instance Typem5d.2xlargei4i.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
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
i – Intel processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5d.12xlarge, m5d.16xlarge, m5d.24xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5d.4xlarge, m5d.8xlarge, m5d.large, m5d.metal, m5d.xlargei4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlarge
Generationsm5d.2xlarge, m6id.2xlarge, m8id.2xlargei4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsm5.2xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlargei4g.2xlarge
SageMakerml.m5d.2xlarge
RDSdb.m5d.2xlarge
OpenSearchi4i.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units37
Instance Storage1 x 300 NVMe SSD1 x 1875 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2300 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput287.5 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance18750 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 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 Diff1.00x1.47x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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Geography
Region
m5d.2xlarge
i4i.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.48000.7170
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.52800.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.52900.7790
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.53200.7790
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.54400.7950
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.55400.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.55400.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.55600.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.56400.8050
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.56400.8050
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.56800.8050
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.48800.7210
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.56800.8180
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.57200.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.57200.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.58400.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.58400.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.59800.8270
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.60000.8270
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.62000.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.72000.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.8640
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.48800.7250
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.9000
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.9020
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.9060
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a1.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.50400.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.50400.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.50400.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.50400.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.52400.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.52800.7570
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.45200.6860
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.45200.6860
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.45200.6860
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