i7i.2xlarge vs x1e.2xlarge

Instance Typei7i.2xlargex1e.2xlarge
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
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
2xlarge – Size
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
1 – Generation
e – Extra storage or memory
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)High Frequency Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.4 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi7i.12xlarge, i7i.16xlarge, i7i.24xlarge, i7i.2xlarge, i7i.48xlarge, i7i.4xlarge, i7i.8xlarge, i7i.large, i7i.metal-24xl, i7i.metal-48xl, i7i.xlargex1e.16xlarge, x1e.2xlarge, x1e.32xlarge, x1e.4xlarge, x1e.8xlarge, x1e.xlarge
Generationsi4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsi7ie.2xlarge
RDSdb.x1e.2xlarge
OpenSearchi7i.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units23
Instance Storage1 x 1875 NVMe SSD1 x 240 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBps1000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS7400 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS7400 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.46x

Regional Prices

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i7i.2xlarge
x1e.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.78891.7200
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.85672.4180
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.87412.4180
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.87602.4180
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.87603.2510
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.8760n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.8857n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.8857n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.8857n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.9002n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.9051n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.81461.8340
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.9051n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.9051n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.9051n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.9099n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.9099n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.9148n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.9903n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.9922n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.9970n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)1.2052n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.81462.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.83252.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.83252.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.83252.3340
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.83252.3800
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.83252.4180
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.85672.4180
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.75501.6680
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.75501.6680
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.75501.6680
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