Amazon EC2 I3en Instances
Dense SSD storage instances for data-intensive workloads
Why Amazon EC2 I3en Instances?
Benefits
Features
Built on the aws nitro system
I3en instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a rich collection of building blocks that offloads many of the traditional virtualization functions to dedicated hardware. By doing so, the AWS Nitro System enables high performance, high availability, and high security while also reducing virtualization overhead.
Bare metal instances
I3en instances offer bare metal size (i3en.metal) that provide your applications with direct access to the compute and memory resources of the underlying next generation AWS hardware and software infrastructure. Bare metal instances let you run a variety of workloads on AWS, including non-virtualized workloads, workloads that benefit from direct access to physical resources, and workloads that may have licensing restrictions. The i3en.metal instances are powered by 1st or 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Skylake or Cascade Lake) processors with 48 hyper-threaded cores, 768 GiB of memory, and 60 TB of NVMe SSD-backed instance storage. They deliver high networking throughput and lower latency with up to 100 Gbps of aggregate network bandwidth by leveraging the next generation of EC2 networking technology, Enhanced Networking based on Elastic Network Adapter (ENA).
Product Details
Model
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vCPU
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Memory (GiB)
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Instance Storage (GB)
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Network Bandwidth (Gbps)
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EBS Bandwidth (Gbps)
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i3en.large
|
2
|
16
|
1 x 1250 NVMe SSD
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Up to 25
|
Up to 4.75
|
i3en.xlarge
|
4
|
32
|
1 x 2500 NVMe SSD
|
Up to 25
|
Up to 4.75
|
i3en.2xlarge
|
8
|
64
|
2 x 2500 NVMe SSD
|
Up to 25 Gbps
|
Up to 4.75
|
i3en.3xlarge
|
12
|
96
|
1 x 7500 NVMe SSD
|
Up to 25
|
Up to 4.75
|
i3en.6xlarge
|
24
|
192
|
2 x 7500 NVMe SSD
|
25
|
4.75
|
i3en.12xlarge
|
48
|
384
|
4 x 7500 NVMe SSD
|
50
|
9.5
|
i3en.24xlarge
|
96
|
768
|
8 x 7500 NVMe SSD
|
100
|
19
|
i3en.metal
|
96
|
768
|
8 x 7500 NVMe SSD
|
100
|
19
|
All instances have the following specs:
3.1 GHz all core turbo 1st or 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Skylake or Cascade Lake) processors
Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel AVX-512†, Intel Turbo
EBS Optimized
Enhanced Networking
Blog
New – The Next Generation (I3en) of I/O-Optimized EC2 Instances.
Jeff Barr - May 8th, 2019
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