i3en.large
Amazon EC2 I3en instances offer the lowest price per GB of SSD instance storage on Amazon EC2 and are designed for data-intensive workloads such as relational and NoSQL databases, distributed file systems, search engines, and data warehousing.
The i3en.large is a aws ec2 instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for ec2 workloads.
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 2 |
| Memory | 16 GiB |
| Physical Processor | Intel Xeon Platinum 8175 |
| Clock Speed | 3.1 GHz |
| CPU Architecture | 64-bit |
| GPU Memory | NA |
| Network | Value |
| Network Performance | Up to 25 Gigabit |
| Enhanced Networking | Yes |
| Storage | Value |
| Storage | 1 x 1250 NVMe SSD |
| EBS Throughput | Up to 3500 Mbps |
| Amazon | Value |
| Current Generation | Yes |
| Instance Type | i3en.large |
| Family | Storage optimized |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| i3en.large | 2 | 16 |
| i3en.xlarge | 4 | 32 |
| i3en.2xlarge | 8 | 64 |
| i3en.3xlarge | 12 | 96 |
| i3en.6xlarge | 24 | 192 |
| i3en.12xlarge | 48 | 384 |
| i3en.24xlarge | 96 | 768 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| r8a.large | 2 | 16 GiB |
| r8gd.large | 2 | 16 GiB |
| r8gb.large | 2 | 16 GiB |
| r8g.large | 2 | 16 GiB |
| r8gn.large | 2 | 16 GiB |
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