Why Amazon EC2 I7ie Instances?
The third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs that power Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) I7ie instances provide up to 120 TB of local NVMe storage. The cloud’s maximum local NVMe storage density is provided by Amazon EC2 I7ie Instances. With an all-core turbo clock of 3.2 GHz, they employ 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, which offer up to 40% higher compute performance and up to 20% better pricing performance than I3en instances.
Compared to instances of the previous generation, Amazon EC2 I7ie Instances offer up to 65% greater real-time storage performance, 50% lower storage I/O latency, and 65% lower storage I/O latency variability. With its high I/O performance, real-time latency, low latency variability, torn write prevention, and always-on encryption, AWS Nitro SSDs are specially built by AWS.
These instances are intended to run applications like distributed file systems, analytics, search engines, and NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Aerospike, HBase, and RocksDB) that need high throughput and real-time latency access to vast volumes of data stored on instance storage.
Advantages of Amazon EC2 I7ie Instances
High performance SSD storage
Based on third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, Amazon EC2 I7ie Instances have the largest local NVMe storage density in the cloud, with up to 120 TB of instance storage. Compared to I3en instances, they offer up to 65% more real-time storage performance per TB, 50% less storage I/O latency, and 65% less storage I/O unpredictability.
Lower storage intensive workload costs
Choose the appropriate instance size based on workload storage needs and save your SSD instance storage costs per gigabyte by more than 40% as compared to I4i instances.
Resource efficiency maximised
The foundation of Amazon EC2 I7ie Instances is the AWS Nitro System, which consists of a lightweight hypervisor and dedicated hardware that provides your instances with nearly all of the host hardware’s memory and processing power for improved overall security and performance.
Features of Amazon EC2 I7ie Instances
Powered by 5th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
Fifth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Emerald Rapids) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz (max core turbo frequency of 4.0 GHz) power I7ie instances. These processors also enable Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME) for always-on memory encryption.
Interfaces with high performance
DDR5 memory, which is used by Amazon EC2 I7ie Instances, offers more bandwidth than instances from earlier generations. Up to 100 Gbps of networking bandwidth and 60 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) are supported by I7ie instances. Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is also supported by I7ie instances in the 48xlarge size.
New accelerator
New integrated accelerators are available in Intel Xeon Scalable processors of the fifth generation: For uses like CPU-based machine learning, Advance Matrix Extensions (AMX) speed up matrix multiplication processes.
Up to 120 TB of low latency NVMe storage and 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors with an all-core turbo clock of 3.2 GHz are features of the recently released storage-optimized Amazon EC2 I7ie instances. These instances have the maximum storage density currently offered in the cloud with third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs. In contrast to the storage-optimized instances of the previous generation, they offer:
- Improved real-time storage performance per TB of up to 65%
- Reduced I/O latency of up to 50% and reduced latency variability of up to 65%
- Improved computation performance by up to 40%
- Up to twice as much RAM and twice as many virtual CPUs
- A 20% improvement in price-performance
NoSQL databases, distributed file systems, search engines, data warehouses, and analytics are among the I/O-intensive workloads that the instances are made to handle that require a high level of random IOPS.
I7ie instances with up to 192 vCPUs and 1.5 TiB of RAM come in nine different sizes:
| Instance Name | vCPUs | Memory | NVMe Storage (Nitro SSD) | EBS Bandwidth | Network Bandwidth |
| I7ie.large | 2 | 16 GiB | 1.25 TB (1 x 1.25 TB) | Up to 10 Gbps | Up to 25 Gbps |
| I7ie.xlarge | 4 | 32 GiB | 2.5 TB (1 x 2.5 TB) | Up to 10 Gbps | Up to 25 Gbps |
| I7ie.2xlarge | 8 | 64 GiB | 5 TB (2 x 2.5 TB) | Up to 10 Gbps | Up to 25 Gbps |
| I7ie.3xlarge | 12 | 96 GiB | 7.5 TB (1 x 7.5 TB) | Up to 10 Gbps | Up to 25 Gbps |
| I7ie.6xlarge | 24 | 192 GiB | 15 TB (2 x 7.5 TB) | Up to 10 Gbps | Up to 25 Gbps |
| I7ie.12xlarge | 48 | 384 GiB | 30 TB (4 x 7.5 TB) | 15 Gbps | Up to 50 Gbps |
| I7ie.18xlarge | 72 | 576 GiB | 45 TB (6 x 7.5 TB) | 22.5 Gbps | Up to 75 Gbps |
| I7ie.24xlarge | 96 | 768 GiB | 60 TB (8 x 7.5 TB) | 30 Gbps | Up to 100 Gbps |
| I7ie.48xlarge | 192 | 1,536 GiB | 120 TB (16 x 7.5 TB) | 60 Gbps | 100 Gbps |
Processing power is enhanced via a bigger L3 cache, more memory bandwidth, and other enhancements. The Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) improve deep learning training and inferencing performance, while the VP2INTERSECT instruction (part of AVX-512) speeds up workloads related to machine learning and graph processing.
The instances have more than three times the EBS bandwidth of the storage-optimized instances from the previous generation on the network side. This is particularly useful for hydrating an in-memory database or cache server, and it speeds up almost all I/O-intensive use cases. Every instance size may be launched in cluster placement groups and supports the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA); the 48xlarge instance size is also compatible with the Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA).
Important Information
You should be aware of the following two facts regarding these recent cases:
Areas Today, it is starting in the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region, with plans to extend to the US East (Ohio) and US West (Oregon) shortly.
Purchasing Choices On-Demand, Spot, Savings Plan, Dedicated Instance, and Dedicated Host forms are all accessible for I7ie instances.
