EC2 Storage optimized Instances

The Storage Optimized instances are optimized for companies who seek to launch workloads in need of high, sequential read and write access to extremely huge data sets on that are found on local storage. These instances are designed for the sake of delivering thousands of low-latencies random IOPS to apps.

 

I3:

Offers:

– Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)

– SSD-backed instance storage for low latency

– Very high random I/O performance

– High sequential read throughput

– High IOPS at a low cost

– Bare Metal instances (i3.metal)

– Nitro System for: non-virtualized workloads + workloads benefitting from access to physical resources + workloads with license restrictions

Its Features Include:

• High Frequency Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) Processors [base frequency 2.3 GHz]
• 25 Gbps of network bandwidth [ENA-based Enhanced Networking]
• High Random I/O performance
• High Sequential Read throughput
• Bare metal instance size [workloads benefitting from direct access to physical processor & memory]

Instance	vCPU*	Mem (GiB)	Local Storage (GB)	Networking Performance (Gbps)
i3.large	2	15.25	1 x 475 NVMe SSD	Up to 10
i3.xlarge	4	30.5	1 x 950 NVMe SSD	Up to 10
i3.2xlarge	8	61	1 x 1,900 NVMe SSD	Up to 10
i3.4xlarge	16	122	2 x 1,900 NVMe SSD	Up to 10
i3.8xlarge	32	244	4 x 1,900 NVMe SSD	10
i3.16xlarge	64	488	8 x 1,900 NVMe SSD	25
i3.metal	72**	512	8 x 1,900 NVMe SSD	25

 

Every instance has the below specs:

• Intel Xeon E5 2686 v4 Processor [2.3 GHz]
• Intel AVX + Intel AVX2 + Intel Turbo
• It is EBS Optimized
• It has Enhanced Networking

Used in the following Cases:

NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis)

– In-memory databases (Aerospike)

– Scale-out transactional databases

– Data warehousing

– Elasticsearch

– Analytics workloads

 

I3en:

Offers:

– Dense Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) SSD instance storage

– Optimized for low latency

– High random I/O performance

– High sequential disk throughput

– Lowest price/GB of SSD instance storage on Amazon EC2

– Bare Metal instances (i3en.metal)

– Powered by the Nitro System [non-virtualized workloads + workloads benefitting from access to physical resources + workloads with license restrictions

Its Features Include:

• 60 TB of NVMe SSD instance storage
• 100 Gbps of network bandwidth [ENA-based Enhanced Networking]
• High random I/O performance
• High sequential disk throughput
• 1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Skylake) processors
• Intel Advanced Vector Extension (AVX-512) instruction set
• Nitro System: combines dedicated hardware + lightweight hypervisor
• Bare metal instance size [workloads benefitting from direct access to physical processor and memory]
• Elastic Fabric Adapter on i3en.24xlarge

Instance	vCPU	Mem (GiB)	Local Storage (GB)	Network Bandwidth
i3en.large	2	16	1 x 1,250 NVMe SSD	Up to 25 Gbps
i3en.xlarge	4	32	1 x 2,500 NVMe SSD	Up to 25 Gbps
i3en.2xlarge	8	64	2 x 2,500 NVMe SSD	Up to 25 Gbps
i3en.3xlarge	12	96	1 x 7,500 NVMe SSD	Up to 25 Gbps
i3en.6xlarge	24	192	2 x 7,500 NVMe SSD	25 Gbps
i3en.12xlarge	48	384	4 x 7,500 NVMe SSD	50 Gbps
i3en.24xlarge	96	768	8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD	100 Gbps
i3en.metal	96	768	8 x 7,500 NVMe SSD	100 Gbps

Every instance has the below specs:

• All core turbo Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Skylake) processors [3.1 GHz]
• Intel AVX + Intel AVX2 + Intel AVX-512 + Intel Turbo
• It is EBS Optimized
• It has Enhanced Networking

Used in the following cases:

– NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis)

– In-memory databases (SAP HANA, Aerospike)

– Scale-out transactional databases

– Distributed file systems

– Data warehousing

– Elasticsearch

– Analytics workloads

 

D2:

They feature 48 TB of HDD-based local storage + offer high disk throughput + provide lowest price/disk throughput performance.

Its Features Include:

• Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell) processors [High frequency]
• It has HDD storage
• Stable high performance at time of launching
• Disk throughput: High
• Enhanced Networking

 

Instance	vCPU*	Mem (GiB)	Storage (GB)	Network Performance
d2.xlarge	4	30.5	3 x 2000 HDD	Moderate
d2.2xlarge	8	61	6 x 2000 HDD	High
d2.4xlarge	16	122	12 x 2000 HDD	High
d2.8xlarge	36	244	24 x 2000 HDD	10 Gigabit

Every instance has the below specs:

• Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 Processor [2.4 GHz]
• Intel AVX + Intel AVX2 +Intel Turbo
• It is EBS Optimized
• It has Enhanced Networking

Used for the following Cases:

– Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehousing

– MapReduce and Hadoop distributed computing

– Distributed file systems

– Network file systems

– Log or data-processing apps

 

H1:

They feature 16 TB of HDD-based local storage + provide high disk throughput + offers balance of compute and memory.

Its Features Include:

• 3 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5 2686 v4 processors (codenamed Broadwell)
• 16TB of HDD storage
• It has a High disk throughput
• It has ENA enabled Enhanced Networking [25 Gbps]

 

Instance	vCPU*	Mem (GiB)	Networking Performance	Storage (GB)
h1.2xlarge	8	32	Up to 10 Gigabit	1 x 2,000 HDD
h1.4xlarge	16	64	Up to 10 Gigabit	2 x 2,000 HDD
h1.8xlarge	32	128	10 Gigabit	4 x 2,000 HDD
h1.16xlarge	64	256	25 Gigabit	8 x 2,000 HDD

Every instance has the below specs:

• Intel Xeon E5 2686 v4 Processor [2.3 GHz]
• Intel AVX + Intel AVX2 + Intel Turbo
• It is EBS Optimized
• It has Enhanced Networking

Used for the following Cases:

– MapReduce-based workloads

– Distributed file systems [HDFS and MapR-FS]

– Network file systems

– Log or data processing apps [Apache Kafka]

– Big data workload clusters

 

 

Notes:

– i3.metal: offers 72 logical processors on 36 physical cores

– Every vCPU: thread of Intel Xeon core or AMD EPYC core [ except for T2 & m3.medium ]

– AVX + AVX2 + AVX-512 + Enhanced Networking: only available on instances that are launched with HVM AMIs.

– We can specify a custom number of vCPUs upon the launching of this instance type.

ec2 memory optimized instances