a1.2xlarge vs r6idn.2xlarge
| a1.2xlarge | r6idn.2xlarge |
| General purpose | Memory optimized |
| Obsolete. 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 | High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps. r – RAM / memory optimized 6 – Generation i – Intel processor d – Instance store volume n – Network and EBS optimized 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 16 GiB | 64 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake) |
| 2.3 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | r6idn.12xlarge, r6idn.16xlarge, r6idn.24xlarge, r6idn.2xlarge, r6idn.32xlarge, r6idn.4xlarge, r6idn.8xlarge, r6idn.large, r6idn.metal, r6idn.xlarge |
| r6idn.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge | |
| r6a.2xlarge, r6g.2xlarge, r6gd.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r6id.2xlarge, r6in.2xlarge | |
| db.r6idn.2xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 474 NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 3500 MBps | up to 25000 MBps |
| 1750 Mbps | 6250 Mbps |
| 218.75 Mbps | 781.25 Mbps |
| 10000 IOPS | 25000 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 100000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 25000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 3125 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 40000 Megabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 3.87x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.2xlarge | r6idn.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.2040 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.2040 | 0.8284 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.2304 | 0.8705 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2328 | 0.9313 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2352 | 0.9360 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2568 | 0.9407 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2664 | 0.9500 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.9547 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.2040 | 0.7816 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.2040 | 0.7816 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.7816 |