is4gen.xlarge
Amazon EC2 Im4gn and Is4gen instances are next-generation, storage-optimized instances designed for running applications that require high throughput and low-latency access to large amounts of data on local SSD storage such as SQL databases (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL), NoSQL databases (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, MongoDB), search engines, analytics, streaming, and large distributed file systems.
The is4gen.xlarge is a aws ec2 instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for ec2 workloads.
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 4 |
| Memory | 24 GiB |
| Physical Processor | AWS Graviton2 Processor |
| Clock Speed | 2.5 GHz |
| CPU Architecture | 64-bit |
| GPU Memory | NA |
| Network | Value |
| Network Performance | Up to 25 Gigabit |
| Enhanced Networking | Yes |
| Storage | Value |
| Storage | 1 x 3750 SSD |
| EBS Throughput | Up to 9500 Mbps |
| Amazon | Value |
| Current Generation | Yes |
| Instance Type | is4gen.xlarge |
| Family | Storage optimized |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| is4gen.medium | 1 | 6 |
| is4gen.large | 2 | 12 |
| is4gen.xlarge | 4 | 24 |
| is4gen.2xlarge | 8 | 48 |
| is4gen.4xlarge | 16 | 96 |
| is4gen.8xlarge | 32 | 192 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| i3.xlarge | 4 | 30.5 GiB |
| r3.xlarge | 4 | 30.5 GiB |
| g3s.xlarge | 4 | 30.5 GiB |
| d2.xlarge | 4 | 30.5 GiB |
| i2.xlarge | 4 | 30.5 GiB |
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