Instances›AWS EC2›i7ie›i7ie.2xlarge
Compute
vCPUs8
Memory64 GiB
Mem / vCPU8.00 GiB
ProcessorXeon Scalable
Clock speed3.2 GHz
Architecturex86_64
Storage
Type2 × 2,500 GB NVMe SSD
Bandwidth10,000 Mbps
Throughput1250 MB/s
IOPS40,000
Networking
PerformanceUp to 25 Gigabit
Max ENIs4
IPv6Yes
GPUNone
Family sizes
i7ie.large2 vCPU · 16 GiB
i7ie.xlarge4 vCPU · 32 GiB
i7ie.2xlarge8 vCPU · 64 GiB
i7ie.3xlarge12 vCPU · 96 GiB
i7ie.6xlarge24 vCPU · 192 GiB
i7ie.12xlarge48 vCPU · 384 GiB
i7ie.18xlarge72 vCPU · 576 GiB
i7ie.24xlarge96 vCPU · 768 GiB
i7ie.metal-24xl96 vCPU · 768 GiB
i7ie.48xlarge192 vCPU · 1536 GiB
i7ie.metal-48xl192 vCPU · 1536 GiB
i7ie.2xlarge

The i7ie.2xlarge is a storage-optimized AWS EC2 instance: 8 vCPU and 64 GiB of memory, 8.00 GiB per vCPU. In the name, "i" is I/O, meaning local storage, "7" is the generation, "ie" marks Intel processors and extended capacity and "2xlarge" is the size within the i7ie family. It runs on Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids) at 3.2 GHz, and AWS introduced it in December 2024. AWS has since shipped i8g; i8g.2xlarge is the direct replacement at this size, scoring 247,525 CoreMark/s against this instance's 199,278 — roughly 24% more throughput for the same vCPU count. Rackspace Spot's mh.vs2.xlarge is a like-for-like substitute at 8 vCPU and 64 GiB, $1.04/hr on AWS in US East (N. Virginia), from $0.031/hr on Rackspace Spot.

Match qualityNo local disk

i7ie.2xlarge comes with 2 × 2,500 GB NVMe SSD attached to the machine. Rackspace Spot nodes use network storage only, so that disk does not come with it.

If you were using the local disk as fast scratch space — temporary files, a local cache, an index — you will need a persistent volume or object storage instead, and both are slower to read. If it was just extra space you never depended on, nothing changes.

Pricing by region
1 hr
RegionAWS on-demandAWS Spot1-yr Reserved3-yr ReservedRackspace SpotYou save
US East, N. Virginia$1.040$0.304$0.031
$1.009 savings
US Central, Chicagono AWS region$0.011
US Central, Dallasno AWS region$0.081
Hong Kong$1.372$0.011
$1.361 savings
Sydney, Australia$1.247$0.435$0.131
$1.116 savings
London, UK$1.210$0.133$0.041
$1.169 savings
US West, San Jose$1.150$0.195$0.001
$1.149 savings
US Central, Dallas 2no AWS region$0.121
When to use it
Good for
  • ●Transactional databases with heavy random I/O
  • ●Streaming ingest that spools to local disk
  • ●Elasticsearch and OpenSearch data nodes
  • ●Workloads that fit inside 64 GiB of RAM
  • ●Jobs that want 2 × 2,500 GB of local NVMe scratch space
  • ●Network-heavy services — AWS rates this size at Up to 25 Gigabit
Avoid if
  • ●The working set needs more than 64 GiB of RAM
  • ●More than 8.00 GiB of RAM per vCPU is needed — that ratio is fixed for the whole family
  • ●GPU or FPGA acceleration is needed
  • ●Workloads that never touch local disk. The instance-store premium is wasted.
$759/mo on AWS on-demand against $23/mo on Rackspace Spot for the equivalent — market-priced, not list-priced.
  • 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.
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