r5b.large vs i7ie.large

Instance Typer5b.largei7ie.large
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
large – 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
e – Extra storage or memory
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory16 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz3.6 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.xlargei7ie.12xlarge, i7ie.18xlarge, i7ie.24xlarge, i7ie.2xlarge, i7ie.3xlarge, i7ie.48xlarge, i7ie.6xlarge, i7ie.large, i7ie.metal-24xl, i7ie.metal-48xl, i7ie.xlarge
Generationsr5b.large, r8ib.large
Variantsr5.large, r5a.large, r5ad.large, r5d.large, r5dn.large, r5n.largei7i.large
RDSdb.r5b.large, db.r5b.large.tpc1.mem2x
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1250 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1250 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput156.25 Mbps78.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance5417 IOPS2500 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 Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.75x

Regional Prices

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r5b.large
i7ie.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.15790.2726
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.18100.2956
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.23700.2956
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.3015
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.3025
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.3025
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.3059
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.3059
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.3105
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.3117
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.3117
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.16300.2729
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.3117
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.3117
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.3140
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.3140
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.3416
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.3416
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.3431
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.4140
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.16700.2805
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.17500.2805
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.17500.2875
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.17800.2875
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.17800.2875
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.17800.2875
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.18100.2875
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.14900.2599
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.14900.2599
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.14900.2599
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