a1.2xlarge vs z1d.2xlarge

Instance Typea1.2xlargez1d.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory 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
High memory and compute applications; suitable for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and certain relational database workloads.

z – Zippy / Compute and memory optimized
1 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturen/ax86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8151
Clock Speed4 GHz
Threads Per Core02
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargez1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlarge
RDSdb.z1d.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units45
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 300 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBps2333 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3170 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput396.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance13333 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13333 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces4
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.71x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.2xlarge
z1d.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20400.7840
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23040.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.23280.8440
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23520.8790
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25680.9000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.26640.9000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.9040
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.9040
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.9080
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.20400.7440
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.20400.7440
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.7440
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