Amazon EC2 I3en instances offer the lowest price per GB of SSD instance storage on x86-based Amazon EC2 instances and are designed for data-intensive workloads such as relational and NoSQL databases, distributed file systems, search engines, and data warehousing. With up to 60 TB of low latency Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) SSD instance storage, I3en instances are optimized for applications requiring high random I/O access to large amounts of data. I3en instances also come with up to 100 Gbps networking bandwidth, 96 vCPUs, and 768 GiB of memory. Customers can enable Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on I3en for low and consistent network latency. I3en instances feature either the 1st or 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor (Skylake or Cascade Lake) with a sustained all core Turbo CPU clock speed of up to 3.1 GHz.
Customers are able to choose from seven different instance sizes to match the price, performance, and storage requirements of their application. I3en instances can deliver up to 2 million random IOPS at 4 KB block sizes and up to 16 GB/s of sequential disk throughput.