r5b.xlarge vs i7i.xlarge

Instance Typer5b.xlargei7i.xlarge
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
xlarge – 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
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory32 GiB32 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.xlarge, r8ib.xlargei4i.xlarge, i7i.xlarge
Variantsr5.xlarge, r5a.xlarge, r5ad.xlarge, r5d.xlarge, r5dn.xlarge, r5n.xlargei7ie.xlarge
RDSdb.r5b.xlarge, db.r5b.xlarge.tpc2.mem2x, db.r5b.xlarge.tpc2.mem4x
OpenSearchi7i.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 937 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps156.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10833 IOPS5000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance43333 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 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 Diff1.00x1.27x

Regional Prices

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r5b.xlarge
i7i.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.31590.3945
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.36200.4283
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.47400.4371
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.4380
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.4380
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.4380
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.4429
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.4429
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.4429
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.4501
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.4525
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.32600.4073
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.4525
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.4525
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.4525
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.4550
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.4550
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.4574
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.4951
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.4961
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.4985
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.6026
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.33400.4073
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.35000.4162
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.35000.4162
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.35600.4162
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.35600.4162
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.35600.4162
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.36200.4283
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.29800.3775
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.29800.3775
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.29800.3775
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