r7iz.2xlarge vs is4gen.2xlarge

Instance Typer7iz.2xlargeis4gen.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.

is – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to six ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB48 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed3.9 GHz2.5 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.xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Variantsr7a.2xlarge, r7g.2xlarge, r7gd.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3168 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput396 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance13333 IOPS20000 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 Diff1.00x1.59x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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Geography
Region
r7iz.2xlarge
is4gen.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.83201.2750
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.90001.2750
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.90801.3100
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a1.3413
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a1.3413
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a1.3566
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a1.3770
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a1.3821
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.3821
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.74401.1526
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.74401.1526
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.74401.1526
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