Introducing Amazon EC2 I7i high performance Storage Optimized instances

Amazon Web Services is announcing the general availability of next generation high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i instances offer up to 45TB of NVMe storage with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4i instances. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, I7i instances offer the best compute and storage performance for x86-based storage optimized instances in Amazon EC2, delivering up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance over previous generation I4i instances.

I7i instances are ideal for I/O intensive and latency-sensitive workloads such as transactional databases, real-time and NoSQL databases, real-time analytics, AI/ML pre-processing for training, indexing and search engines requiring high random IOPS performance with real-time latency to access the small to medium size datasets (multi-TBs). Additionally, the torn write prevention feature, enables customers to eliminate database performance bottlenecks.

I7i instances are available in eleven sizes - nine virtual sizes up to 48xlarge and two bare metal options - delivering up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 60Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth. These instances are available today in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio) and US West (Oregon) AWS regions, with flexible purchase options including On Demand and Savings Plans. To learn more, visit the I7i instances page.