r4.2xlarge vs i7i.2xlarge

Instance Typer4.2xlargei7i.2xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
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
4 – Generation
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
Memory61 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlargei7i.12xlarge, i7i.16xlarge, i7i.24xlarge, i7i.2xlarge, i7i.48xlarge, i7i.4xlarge, i7i.8xlarge, i7i.large, i7i.metal-24xl, i7i.metal-48xl, i7i.xlarge
Generationsr3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlargei4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsi7ie.2xlarge
RDSdb.r4.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.2xlarge
OpenSearchr4.2xlarge.searchi7i.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1875 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1600 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1700 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput212.5 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1700 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput212.5 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 Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.39x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
r4.2xlarge
i7i.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.54800.7889
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.64000.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.64000.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.64000.8857
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.64020.8857
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.12000.8857
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.9002
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.9051
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.9051
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.9051
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.9051
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.58400.8146
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.9099
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.9099
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.9148
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.9903
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.9922
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.9970
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a1.2052
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.59280.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.59280.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.62400.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.62400.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.63840.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.63840.8567
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.64000.8567
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.53200.7550
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.53200.7550
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.53200.7550
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