a1.metal vs z1d.metal

Instance Typea1.metalz1d.metal
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments.

aARM AWS Graviton Processor
1 – Generation
metal – Bare metal
High memory and compute applications; suitable for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and certain relational database workloads.

zZippy / Compute and memory optimized
1 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs1648
Memory32 GiB384 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8151
Clock Speed2.3 GHz4 GHz
Threads Per Core12
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
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units271
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps14000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces815
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x11.14x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
a1.metal
z1d.metal
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40804.7040
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46104.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.46605.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47005.2730
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51405.4000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.53305.4000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a5.4240
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a5.4240
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a5.4480
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.40804.4640
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40804.4640
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a4.4640
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