a1.2xlarge vs d2.2xlarge

Instance Typea1.2xlarged2.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments.

a – ARM AWS Graviton Processor
1 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehousing, MapReduce/Hadoop computing, distributed/file network systems, and log/data-processing applications.

d – Disk / storage optimized
2 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarged2.2xlarge, d2.4xlarge, d2.8xlarge, d2.xlarge
Generationsd2.2xlarge, d3.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units28
Instance StorageEBS only6 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBps1000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x7.05x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.2xlarge
d2.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20401.3960
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.6530
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.6560
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.6560
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.7400
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a1.7400
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a1.7500
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a1.9140
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23041.4700
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.23281.5180
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23521.5440
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25681.5440
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.26641.5440
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a1.5630
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a1.5880
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.6170
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.20401.3800
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.20401.3800
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.3800
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