Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, i7i instances provide up to 23% improved compute performance and over 10% better price-performance compared to previous i4i generation. They incorporate 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs that deliver significantly enhanced real-time storage throughput and lower latency.
These instances benefit from the AWS Nitro System's offloading of virtualization tasks, enhancing security and workload performance. i7i instances are available across a broad set of AWS regions for customers requiring high-throughput, low-latency storage-optimized search and analytics workloads using Amazon OpenSearch Service.
Source & further reading
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports storage optimized i7i instances ↗Source published 2026-02-18. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.