I3 Storage Optimized

High, sequential read/write access to large local datasets.

Name:iStorage Optimized (High I/O NVMe)i = Storage Optimized (High I/O NVMe)Equipped with high-performance local NVMe SSDs delivering millions of low-latency IOPS for high-frequency transaction processing.33rd Generation3 = 3rd GenerationAWS 3rd generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.

Alternatives to i3

OptionPrice vs i3Why look at it
i3enCompare →
+45%+$0.14/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Different family variant, 32 GiB RAM instead of 30.5, same vCPU
i4iCompare →
+10%+$0.031/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Newer generation, 32 GiB RAM instead of 30.5, same vCPU
i4gCompare →
-1%-$0.0031/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Graviton (arm64), newer generation, 32 GiB RAM instead of 30.5, same vCPU

Common use cases

  • NoSQL databases
  • Data warehousing
  • Distributed file systems

Head-to-Head Architecture Comparisons

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Storage & IOPSi3 vs i3en vs i4i vs i4g

Storage-Optimized IOPS Comparison: I3 vs I3en vs I4i vs I4g

Massive NVMe density for Cassandra, ScyllaDB, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch

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Instance types (6)

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
i3.large215 GBx86_64$0.1560
i3.xlarge431 GBx86_64$0.3120
i3.2xlarge861 GBx86_64$0.6240
i3.4xlarge16122 GBx86_64$1.2480
i3.8xlarge32244 GBx86_64$2.4960
i3.16xlarge64488 GBx86_64$4.9920