r5dn.2xlarge vs i7i.2xlarge

Instance Typer5dn.2xlargei7i.2xlarge
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
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
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
Memory64 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5dn.12xlarge, r5dn.16xlarge, r5dn.24xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5dn.4xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5dn.large, r5dn.metal, r5dn.xlargei7i.12xlarge, i7i.16xlarge, i7i.24xlarge, i7i.2xlarge, i7i.48xlarge, i7i.4xlarge, i7i.8xlarge, i7i.large, i7i.metal-24xl, i7i.metal-48xl, i7i.xlarge
Generationsr5dn.2xlarge, r6idn.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlargei4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsr5.2xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5n.2xlargei7ie.2xlarge
OpenSearchi7i.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
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 Bandwidth2300 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput287.5 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance18750 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 25 GigabitUp to 12 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.14x

Regional Prices

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r5dn.2xlarge
i7i.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.70800.7889
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.81200.8567
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.81600.8741
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.88400.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.8760
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)0.74400.8146
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)0.78400.8146
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.78400.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.79600.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.79600.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.80000.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.80400.8325
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.80400.8567
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.66800.7550
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.66800.7550
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.66800.7550
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