c5.xlarge vs z1d.xlarge

Instance Typec5.xlargez1d.xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsHigh-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

c – Compute optimized
5 – Generation
xlarge – 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
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory8 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8124MIntel Xeon Platinum 8151
Clock Speed3.4 GHz4 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc5.12xlarge, c5.18xlarge, c5.24xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c5.9xlarge, c5.large, c5.metal, c5.xlargez1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlarge
Generationsc1.xlarge, c3.xlarge, c4.xlarge, c5.xlarge, c6i.xlarge, c7i.xlarge, c8i.xlarge
Variantsc5a.xlarge, c5ad.xlarge, c5d.xlarge, c5n.xlarge
SageMakerml.c5.xlarge
RDSdb.z1d.xlarge
OpenSearchc5.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units2023
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 150 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2250 MBpsup to 2333 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1150 Mbps1580 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput143.75 Mbps197.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS6667 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS13333 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps3170 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps396.25 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.10x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5.xlarge
z1d.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.1700n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1700n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.17000.3920
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.1960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.1960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.2020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.2020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.2020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.2020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.2040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.2040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.2110n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.2110n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.17000.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.2120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.2130n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.2140n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.2140n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.2160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.2220n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.2220n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.2280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.2620n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.18200.4220
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.18600.4390
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.18600.4500
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.19200.4500
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.19200.4520
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.19200.4520
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.19400.4540
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.3720
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.17000.3720
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.3720
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