AWS: Comparing the Performance Results of Amazon EC2 I3 vs. EC2 I2 (February 25, 2017)

Amazon Web Services has released its “next-generation Storage Optimized High I/O instances”, termed “Amazon EC2 I3”. The new instances have large amounts of NVMe (SSD, Flash) storage.

How do these latest I3 instances compare to the old I2 instances and “bare metal” NVMe drives? Read the results in our blog post.