Storage optimized Amazon EC2 instance types

Amazon EC2 I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs. They deliver the best compute and storage performance among storage-optimized Amazon EC2 instances.

Features: 

• Powered by custom-built AWS Graviton4 processors
  
• Featuring up to 45 TB of local NVMe SSD instance storage with 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs.
  
• Features the latest DDR5-5600 memory
  
• Up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth
  
• Up to 60 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  

All instances have the following specs:

• Custom-built AWS Graviton4 processor
• Optimized for Amazon EBS
• Enhanced networking†

Use Cases

I/O intensive workloads that require real-time latency access to data such as relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), real-time databases, NoSQL databases (Aerospike, Apache Druid, Clickhouse, MongoDB), and real- time analytics such as Apache Spark.

Amazon EC2 I8ge instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs. They deliver the highest storage density among AWS Graviton-based storage optimized instances and the highest networking bandwidth among storage optimized  Amazon EC2 instances.

Features: 

• Powered by custom-built AWS Graviton4 processors 
• Featuring up to 120 TB of local NVMe SSD instance storage with 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs. 
• Features the latest DDR5-5600 memory 
• Up to 300 Gbps of network bandwidth 
• Up to 60 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) 
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

All instances have the following specs:

• Custom-built AWS Graviton4 processor
• Optimized for Amazon EBS
• Enhanced networking†

Use Cases

I/O intensive workloads that require real-time latency access to data and much larger storage density than I8g instances. These workloads include but not limited to relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), real-time databases, NoSQL databases (Aerospike, Apache Druid, Clickhouse, MongoDB), and real- time analytics such as Apache Spark.

Amazon EC2 I7i instances are powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs and 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. They deliver the best compute and storage performance among x86-based storage-optimized Amazon EC2 instances.

Features: 

• Powered by up to 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Emerald Rapids 8559C)
  
• New Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) accelerate matrix multiplication operations
• Discrete built-in accelerators—Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), and QuickAssist Technology (QAT)—available on I7i bare metal instances
• Features latest DDR5-5600 memory
• Up to 45TB of NVMe storage powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs
• Torn write prevention (TWP) and always-on encryption
• New virtual size i7i.48xlarge
  
• Two metal sizes metal-24xl and metal-48xl
• Up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth
• Up to 60 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on i7i.48xlarge and i7i.metal-48xl
• Up to 128 EBS volume attachments per instance
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and software

Use Cases

These instances are ideal for workloads requiring high-speed access at real-time latency to local NVMe storage to meet strict service level agreements (SLAs), including relational databases like MySQL, Oracle DB, and Microsoft SQL Server, as well as NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Couchbase, Aerospike, Redis, HBase, and RocksDB. The combination of high throughput and consistent low-latency access to medium sized datasets makes it particularly well-suited for data-intensive applications including search engines, real-time analytics platforms like Spark, Kafka, and Databricks, and AI/ML pre-processing workloads.

Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs. They deliver the highest local NVMe storage density in the cloud.

Features: 

• Powered by up to 3.2 GHz 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Emerald Rapids 8559C)
  
• New Advance Matrix Extensions (AMX) accelerate matrix multiplication operations
  
• Discrete built-in accelerators—Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), and QuickAssist Technology (QAT)—available on I7ie bare metal instances. 
• Features latest DDR5-5600 memory
• Featuring up to 120 TB of local NVMe SSD instance storage with 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs
  
• Torn write prevention and always-on encryption
• Two new virtual sizes i7ie.18xlarge and i7ie.48xlarge
• Two metal sizes i7ie.metal-24xl and i7ie.metal-48xl
• Up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth
• Up to 60 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on i7ie.48xlarge and i7ie.metal-48xl
• Support for up to 128 EBS volume attachments per instance
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and software

All instances have the following specs:

• 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
• Optimized for Amazon EBS
• Enhanced networking†

Use Cases

These instances are ideal for workloads that require high throughput and real-time latency access to large amounts of data residing on instance storage such as NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB, Aerospike, HBase, RocksDB), real-time analytics (Kafka, Splunk), distributed file systems, search engines, and blockchain analysis. 

Amazon EC2 I4g instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and provide the best price performance for storage-intensive workloads in Amazon EC2. I4g instances deliver up to 15% better compute performance compared to similar storage-optimized instances.

Features: 

• Powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
• Featuring up to 15 TB of NVMe SSD instance storage with AWS Nitro SSDs that provide up to 60% lower I/O latency and up to 75% reduced latency variability compared to I3 and I3en instances and feature always-on encryption
• Optimized for workloads that map to 8 GB of memory per vCPU
• Up to 38 Gbps of network bandwidth using Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)-based enhanced networking
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on i4g.16xlarge instances
  
• Up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• Built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• Support for torn write prevention (TWP) to facilitate additional performance and reduce latencies with database workloads such as MySQL and MariaDB.

All instances have the following specs:

• Custom-built AWS Graviton2 processor with 64-bit Arm cores
• EBS Optimized
  
• Enhanced Networking†

Use Cases

Amazon EC2 I4g instances are optimized for I/O intensive applications and are targeted to customers using transactional databases (Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL), Amazon OpenSearch Service, and real-time analytics such as Apache Spark.

Amazon EC2 Im4gn instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and provide the best price performance for storage-intensive workloads in Amazon EC2. They provide up to 40% better price performance, up to 44% lower cost per TB of storage over I3 instances.

Features: 

• Powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
  
• Featuring up to 30 TB of NVMe SSD instance storage with AWS Nitro SSDs that provide up to 60% lower I/O latency and up to 75% reduced latency variability compared to I3 and I3en instances and feature always-on encryption
  
• Optimized for workloads that map to 4 GB of memory per vCPU
  
• 2x NVMe SSD storage density per vCPU compared to I3 instances
  
• Up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth using Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)-based Enhanced Networking
  
• Support for Elastic Fabric Adapter on im4gn.16xlarge
  
• Up to 38 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store
  
• Built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• Support for Torn Write Prevention (TWP) to enable additional performance and reduce latencies with database workloads such as MySQL and MariaDB.
  

All instances have the following specs:

• Custom built AWS Graviton2 Processor
• EBS Optimized
• Enhanced Networking†

Use Cases

These instances maximize the number of transactions processed per second (TPS) for I/O intensive and business-critical workloads which have medium size data sets and can benefit from high compute performance and high network throughput such as relational databases (MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL), and NoSQL databases (KeyDB, ScyllaDB, and Cassandra). They are also an ideal fit for workloads that require very fast access to medium size data sets on local storage such as search engines and data analytics workloads.

Amazon EC2 Is4gen instances are are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and offer the lowest cost per TB of SSD storage and the highest density of SSD storage per vCPU in Amazon EC2 for storage intensive workloads. These instances provide up to 15% lower cost per TB, up to 48% better compute performance per vCPU, compared to I3en instances.

Features: 

• Powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
  
• Featuring up to 30 TB of NVMe SSD instance storage with AWS Nitro SSDs that provide up to 60% lower I/O latency and up to 75% reduced latency variability compared to I3 and I3en instances and feature always-on encryption
  
• Optimized for workloads that map to 6 GB of memory per vCPU
  
• 50% more NVMe SSD storage per vCPU compared to I3en
  
• Up to 50 Gbps of network bandwidth using Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)-based Enhanced Networking
• Up to 19 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store
  
• Built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• Support for Torn Write Prevention (TWP) to enable additional performance and reduce latencies with database workloads such as MySQL and MariaDB.

All instances have the following specs:

• Custom built AWS Graviton2 Processor with 64-bit Arm cores
• EBS Optimized
• Enhanced Networking†

Use Cases

These instances maximize the number of transactions processed per second (TPS) for I/O demanding workloads which have large datasets and can map to highest NVMe storage density per vCPU such as NoSQL databases (KeyDB, MongoDB, ScyllaDB, and Cassandra) which have large datasets and can map to highest NVMe storage density per vCPU. They are also an ideal fit for workloads that require higher storage density and very fast access to large data sets on local storage such as search engines (Splunk and Elasticsearch), data streaming, and large distributed file systems.

Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs.

Features: 

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake 8375C)
  
• Up to 30% better compute price performance than I3 instances
  
• Up to 30 TB of NVMe storage from AWS Nitro SSDs that provide up to 60% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 75% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I3 instances
  
• Up to 75 Gbps of networking speed
  
• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store
  
• A new instance size (32xlarge) with 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory
  
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on the 32xlarge size
  
• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)
  
• Built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  
• Support for new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX 512) instructions for faster execution of cryptographic algorithms
  
• Support for Torn Write Prevention (TWP) to enable additional performance and reduce latencies with database workloads such as MySQL and MariaDB.
  

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
• EBS Optimized
• Enhanced Networking†

Use Cases

These instances are designed to maximize transactions per second (TPS) for I/O demanding workloads that require very fast access to small to medium sized data sets on local storage such as transactional databases (e.g. MySQL, Oracle DB, and Microsoft SQL Server), and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, Couchbase, Aerospike and Redis). I4i instances are also an ideal fit for workloads that can benefit from high compute performance per TB of storage such as data analytics and search engines.

This instance family provides Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) SSD-backed instance storage optimized for low latency, very high random I/O performance, high sequential read throughput and provide high IOPS at a low cost. I3 also offers Bare Metal instances (i3.metal), powered by the Nitro System, for non-virtualized workloads, workloads that benefit from access to physical resources, or workloads that may have license restrictions.

Features:

• High Frequency Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Broadwell E5-2686 v4) with base frequency of 2.3 GHz
• Up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth using Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)-based Enhanced Networking
• High Random I/O performance and High Sequential Read throughput
• Support bare metal instance size for workloads that benefit from direct access to physical processor and memory
  

All instances have the following specs:

• 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon E5 2686 v4 Processor
• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel Turbo
• EBS Optimized
• Enhanced Networking†

Use Cases

Small to medium-scale NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Aerospike), in-memory databases (e.g. Redis), scale-out transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, analytics workloads.

This instance family provides dense Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) SSD instance storage optimized for low latency, high random I/O performance, high sequential disk throughput, and offers the lowest price per GB of SSD instance storage on Amazon EC2. I3en also offers Bare Metal instances (i3en.metal), powered by the Nitro System, for non-virtualized workloads, workloads that benefit from access to physical resources, or workloads that may have license restrictions.

Features:

• Up to 60 TB of NVMe SSD instance storage
• Up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth using Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)-based Enhanced Networking
• High random I/O performance and high sequential disk throughput
• Up to 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (Skylake 8175M or Cascade Lake 8259CL) with new Intel Advanced Vector Extension (AVX-512) instruction set
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• Support bare metal instance size for workloads that benefit from direct access to physical processor and memory
  
• Support for Elastic Fabric Adapter on i3en.24xlarge
  

All instances have the following specs:

• 3.1 GHz all core turbo Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Skylake) processors
• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel AVX-512†, Intel Turbo 
• EBS Optimized
• Enhanced Networking

Use cases

Small to large-scale NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Aerospike), in-memory databases (e.g. Redis), scale-out transactional databases, distributed file systems, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, analytics workloads.

Amazon EC2 D3 instances are optimized for applications that require high sequential I/O performance and disk throughput. D3 instances represent an optimal upgrade path for workloads running on D2 instances that need additional compute and network performance at a lower price/TB.

Features:

• Up to 3.1 GHz 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (Intel Cascade Lake 8259CL) with new Intel Advanced Vector Extension (AVX-512) instruction set
  
• Up to 48 TB of HDD instance storage
• Up to 45% higher read and write disk throughput than EC2 D2 instances
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System

*128k block sizes, sequential read and write (rounded to nearest 100 except for xlarge)

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 3.1 GHz 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Cascade Lake) processors
• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel AVX-512†, Intel Turbo
• Enhanced Networking

Use Cases

Distributed File Systems (e.g., HDFS, MapReduce File Systems), Big Data analytical workloads (e.g., Elastic MapReduce, Spark, Hadoop), Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) Data warehouse (e.g. Redshift, HP Vertica), Log or data processing applications (e.g., Kafka, Elastic Search)

Amazon EC2 D3en instances are optimized for applications that require high sequential I/O performance, disk throughput, and low cost storage for very large data sets. D3en instances offer the lowest dense storage costs amongst all cloud offerings.

Features:

• Up to 3.1 GHz 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (Intel Cascade Lake 8259CL)with new Intel Advanced Vector Extension (AVX-512) instruction set
  
• Up to 336 TB of HDD instance storage
• Up to 75 Gbps of network bandwidth
• Up to 2x higher read and write disk throughput than EC2 D2 instances
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System

*128k block sizes, sequential read and write (rounded to nearest 100)

All instances have the following specs:

• 3.1 GHz all core turbo 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Cascade Lake) processors
• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel AVX-512†, Intel Turbo
• Enhanced Networking

Use Cases

Multi-node file storage systems such as Lustre, BeeGFS, GPFS, VxCFS, and GFS2. High Capacity data lakes with consistent sequential I/O performance

Amazon EC2 D2 instances feature up to 48 TB of HDD-based local storage, deliver high disk throughput, and offer the lowest price per disk throughput performance on Amazon EC2.

Features:

• High-frequency Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Haswell E5-2676 v3)
• HDD storage
• Consistent high performance at launch time
• High disk throughput
• Support for Enhanced Networking
  

All instances have the following specs:

• 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 Processor
• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel Turbo
• EBS Optimized
• Enhanced Networking†

Use Cases

Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehousing, MapReduce and Hadoop distributed computing, distributed file systems, network file systems, log or data-processing applications.

Amazon EC2 H1 instances feature up to 16 TB of HDD-based local storage, deliver high disk throughput, and a balance of compute and memory.

Features:

• Powered by 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Broadwell E5 2686 v4)
• Up to 16TB of HDD storage
• High disk throughput
• ENA enabled Enhanced Networking up to 25 Gbps
  

All instances have the following specs:

• 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon E5 2686 v4 Processor
• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel Turbo
• EBS Optimized
• Enhanced Networking†

Use Cases

MapReduce-based workloads, distributed file systems such as HDFS and MapR-FS, network file systems, log or data processing applications such as Apache Kafka, and big data workload clusters.