r5b.4xlarge vs i7i.4xlarge

Instance Typer5b.4xlargei7i.4xlarge
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
b – EBS optimized
4xlarge – 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
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory128 GiB128 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
Sizesr5b.12xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5b.24xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5b.4xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5b.large, r5b.metal, r5b.xlargei7i.12xlarge, i7i.16xlarge, i7i.24xlarge, i7i.2xlarge, i7i.48xlarge, i7i.4xlarge, i7i.8xlarge, i7i.large, i7i.metal-24xl, i7i.metal-48xl, i7i.xlarge
Generationsr5b.4xlarge, r8ib.4xlargei4i.4xlarge, i7i.4xlarge
Variantsr5.4xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5ad.4xlarge, r5d.4xlarge, r5dn.4xlarge, r5n.4xlarge
RDSdb.r5b.4xlarge, db.r5b.4xlarge.tpc2.mem2x, db.r5b.4xlarge.tpc2.mem3x, db.r5b.4xlarge.tpc2.mem4x
OpenSearchi7i.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 3750 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10240 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance43333 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance43333 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.27x

Regional Prices

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r5b.4xlarge
i7i.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.26351.5778
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.44801.7134
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.89601.7482
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.7521
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.7521
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.7521
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.7714
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.7714
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a1.7714
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a1.8005
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a1.8102
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.30401.6291
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a1.8102
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a1.8102
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a1.8102
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a1.8198
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a1.8198
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a1.8295
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a1.9806
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a1.9844
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a1.9941
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a2.4103
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.33601.6291
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.40001.6650
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.40001.6650
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.42401.6650
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.42401.6650
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.42401.6650
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.44801.7134
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.19201.5101
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.19201.5101
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.19201.5101
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