r5d.xlarge vs i4i.xlarge
| r5d.xlarge | i4i.xlarge |
| Memory optimized | Storage optimized |
| High-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 xlarge – 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 xlarge – Size |
| 4 | 4 |
| 32 GiB | 32 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8175 | Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake) |
| 3.1 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| 2 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| r5d.12xlarge, r5d.16xlarge, r5d.24xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5d.4xlarge, r5d.8xlarge, r5d.large, r5d.metal, r5d.xlarge | i4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlarge |
| r5d.xlarge, r6id.xlarge, r8id.xlarge | i4i.xlarge, i7i.xlarge |
| r5.xlarge, r5a.xlarge, r5ad.xlarge, r5b.xlarge, r5dn.xlarge, r5n.xlarge | i4g.xlarge |
| ml.r5d.xlarge | |
| db.r5d.xlarge | |
| i4i.xlarge.search | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| 19 | |
| 1 x 150 NVMe SSD | 1 x 937 NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 2120 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 1150 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| 143.75 Mbps | 156.25 Mbps |
| 6000 IOPS | 5000 IOPS |
| 18750 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 4750 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 593.75 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.18x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | r5d.xlarge | i4i.xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.3020 | 0.3590 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.3380 | 0.3780 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.3380 | 0.3890 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.3460 | 0.3890 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.3460 | 0.3970 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.3460 | 0.3980 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.3460 | 0.3980 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.3480 | 0.3980 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.3480 | 0.4030 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.3480 | 0.4030 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.3480 | 0.4030 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.3020 | 0.3600 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.3480 | 0.4090 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.3480 | 0.4110 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.3500 | 0.4110 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.3520 | 0.4110 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.3520 | 0.4110 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.3800 | 0.4140 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.3810 | 0.4140 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.4560 | 0.4160 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | n/a | 0.4160 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | n/a | 0.4320 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.3040 | 0.3620 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | n/a | 0.4500 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | n/a | 0.4510 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | n/a | 0.4530 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | n/a | 0.5480 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.3160 | 0.3700 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.3200 | 0.3700 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.3200 | 0.3780 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.3240 | 0.3780 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.3360 | 0.3780 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.3360 | 0.3780 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.2880 | 0.3430 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.2880 | 0.3430 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.2880 | 0.3430 |
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