i4i.metal vs x2idn.metal

Instance Typei4i.metalx2idn.metal
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsNoSQL 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
metal – Bare metal
In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
2 – Generation
i – Intel processor
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs128128
Memory1024 GiB2048 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake)
Clock Speed3.5 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlargex2idn.16xlarge, x2idn.24xlarge, x2idn.32xlarge, x2idn.metal
Variantsx2gd.metal, x2iedn.metal, x2iezn.metal
RDSdb.x2idn.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage8 x 3750 NVMe SSD2 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput40000 MBps81920 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth40000 Mbps80000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput5000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance160000 IOPS260000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance160000 IOPS260000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth40000 Mbps80000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput5000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance75000 Megabit100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesyes
EFA Max Interfaces11
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.35x

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i4i.metal
x2idn.metal
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USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)10.982013.3380
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)10.982013.3380
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)10.982013.3380
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