m5ad.2xlarge vs i7i.2xlarge

Instance Typem5ad.2xlargei7i.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
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
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)
Clock Speed2.2 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5ad.12xlarge, m5ad.16xlarge, m5ad.24xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5ad.4xlarge, m5ad.8xlarge, m5ad.large, m5ad.xlargei7i.12xlarge, i7i.16xlarge, i7i.24xlarge, i7i.2xlarge, i7i.48xlarge, i7i.4xlarge, i7i.8xlarge, i7i.large, i7i.metal-24xl, i7i.metal-48xl, i7i.xlarge
Generationsi4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsm5.2xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlargei7ie.2xlarge
OpenSearchi7i.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance Storage1 x 300 NVMe SSD1 x 1875 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1580 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput197.5 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8333 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 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 Diff1.00x1.84x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m5ad.2xlarge
i7i.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.41200.7889
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.52000.8567
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.52400.8741
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.53600.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.66000.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.8857
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.8857
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.8857
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.9002
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.9051
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46000.8146
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.9051
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.9051
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.9051
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.9099
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.9099
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.9148
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.9903
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.9922
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.9970
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a1.2052
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.46000.8146
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.48000.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.48400.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.48800.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.50000.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.50800.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.51600.8567
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.41200.7550
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.41200.7550
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.7550
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