I4I 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.iIntel Xeon Scalablei = Intel Xeon ScalableIntel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake) (x86_64). Powered by Intel Xeon Scalable x86_64 processors with Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX-512 / AMX) acceleration.

Alternatives to i4i

OptionPrice vs i4iWhy look at it
i4gCompare →
-10%-$0.0341/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Graviton (arm64), same vCPU and RAM
i3Compare →
-9%-$0.031/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Previous generation, 30.5 GiB RAM instead of 32, same vCPU
i3enCompare →
+32%+$0.109/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Previous generation, same vCPU and RAM

Common use cases

  • NoSQL databases
  • Data warehousing
  • Distributed file systems

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Instance types (9)

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
i4i.large216 GBx86_64$0.1720
i4i.xlarge432 GBx86_64$0.3430
i4i.2xlarge864 GBx86_64$0.6860
i4i.4xlarge16128 GBx86_64$1.3730
i4i.8xlarge32256 GBx86_64$2.7460
i4i.12xlarge48384 GBx86_64$4.1180
i4i.16xlarge64512 GBx86_64$5.4910
i4i.24xlarge96768 GBx86_64$8.2368
i4i.32xlarge1281,024 GBx86_64$10.9824