r7iz.2xlarge vs i8ge.2xlarge

Instance Typer7iz.2xlargei8ge.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
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
z – High performance
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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
e – Extra storage or memory
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.9 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr7iz.12xlarge, r7iz.16xlarge, r7iz.2xlarge, r7iz.32xlarge, r7iz.4xlarge, r7iz.8xlarge, r7iz.large, r7iz.metal-16xl, r7iz.metal-32xl, r7iz.xlargei8ge.12xlarge, i8ge.18xlarge, i8ge.24xlarge, i8ge.2xlarge, i8ge.3xlarge, i8ge.48xlarge, i8ge.6xlarge, i8ge.large, i8ge.metal-24xl, i8ge.metal-48xl, i8ge.xlarge
Variantsr7a.2xlarge, r7g.2xlarge, r7gd.2xlarge, r7i.2xlargei8g.2xlarge
OpenSearchi8ge.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 2500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3168 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput396 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance13333 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12500 MegabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
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 Diff1.00x1.33x

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r7iz.2xlarge
i8ge.2xlarge
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HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.1466
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.1466
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.2537
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USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.74400.9492
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.74400.9492
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.74400.9492
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