r5.large vs i4i.large

Instance Typer5.largei4i.large
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
large – 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
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory16 GiB16 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
Sizesr5.12xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r5.24xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r5.large, r5.metal, r5.xlargei4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlarge
Generationsr3.large, r4.large, r5.large, r6i.large, r7i.large, r8i.largei4i.large, i7i.large
Variantsr5a.large, r5ad.large, r5b.large, r5d.large, r5dn.large, r5n.largei4g.large
SageMakerml.r5.large
RDSdb.r5.large, db.r5.large.tpc1.mem2x
DocumentDBdb.r5.large
OpenSearchr5.large.searchi4i.large.search
ElastiCachecache.r5.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units10
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 468 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 4750 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth650 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput81.25 Mbps78.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3600 IOPS2500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance18750 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.35x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r5.large
i4i.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.13000.1790
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.14800.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.14800.1950
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.14800.1950
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.15100.1990
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.15100.1990
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.15100.1990
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.15100.1990
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.15200.2010
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.15200.2010
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.15200.2010
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.13000.1800
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.15200.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.15200.2060
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.15200.2060
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.15500.2060
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.15500.2060
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.16700.2070
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.16700.2070
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.16800.2080
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.20100.2080
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.2160
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.13400.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.2250
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.2260
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.2270
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a0.2740
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.13800.1850
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.13800.1850
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.14000.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.14100.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.14100.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.14800.1890
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.12600.1720
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.12600.1720
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.12600.1720
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