I4G 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.44th Generation4 = 4th GenerationAWS 4th generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.gAWS Gravitong = AWS GravitonAWS Graviton2 Processor (arm64). Powered by custom 64-bit ARM AWS Graviton processors, delivering industry-leading price-performance and power efficiency.

Alternatives to i4g

OptionPrice vs i4gWhy look at it
i4iCompare →
+11%+$0.0341/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Intel (x86_64), same vCPU and RAM
i3Compare →
+1%+$0.0031/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Intel (x86_64), previous generation, 30.5 GiB RAM instead of 32, same vCPU
i3enCompare →
+46%+$0.143/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Intel (x86_64), previous generation, same vCPU and RAM

Common use cases

  • NoSQL databases
  • Data warehousing
  • Distributed file systems

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

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Instance types (6)

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
i4g.large216 GBarm64$0.1544
i4g.xlarge432 GBarm64$0.3089
i4g.2xlarge864 GBarm64$0.6178
i4g.4xlarge16128 GBarm64$1.2355
i4g.8xlarge32256 GBarm64$2.4710
i4g.16xlarge64512 GBarm64$4.9421