The i2.large is a storage-optimized AWS EC2 instance: 2 vCPU and 15 GiB of memory, 7.50 GiB per vCPU. In the name, "i" is I/O, meaning local storage, "2" is the generation and "large" is the size within the i2 family. It runs on Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge) at 2.5 GHz, and AWS introduced it in December 2013. AWS has since shipped i3, i4i, i7i and i8g; i3.large is the direct replacement at this size. Rackspace Spot's mh.vs1.medium is a like-for-like substitute at 2 vCPU and 16 GiB.
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US East, N. Virginia
$0.011
US Central, Chicago
no AWS region
$0.021
US Central, Dallas
no AWS region
$0.041
Hong Kong
$0.002
Sydney, Australia
$0.011
London, UK
$0.011
US West, San Jose
$0.031
US Central, Dallas 2
no AWS region
$0.031
When to use it
Good for
●Elasticsearch and OpenSearch data nodes
●NoSQL stores such as Cassandra, ScyllaDB and MongoDB
●Data warehousing and log processing
●Workloads that fit inside 15 GiB of RAM
●Small, steady services that do not need more than 2 vCPU
Avoid if
●Starting a new deployment. i3.large is the newer generation at this size.
●The working set needs more than 15 GiB of RAM
●GPU or FPGA acceleration is needed
●Workloads that never touch local disk. The instance-store premium is wasted.
●More than 7.50 GiB of RAM per vCPU is needed — that ratio is fixed for the whole family
●Local NVMe or instance-store disk is a hard requirement
Rackspace Spot sells spare capacity at market prices. You pay what the market decides, not a list price.
Spot sells spare capacity at market prices. It is the cheapest compute on the internet.
Prices are set by supply and demand. You pay what the market decides.
Compute is delivered as fully managed Kubernetes. All infrastructure is taken care of.
Egress costs $0.01/GB after the free allowance. AWS charges $0.09/GB.
