c6gd.2xlarge vs r4.2xlarge

Instance Typec6gd.2xlarger4.2xlarge
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.

cCompute optimized
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
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.

rRAM / memory optimized
4 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc6gd.12xlarge, c6gd.16xlarge, c6gd.2xlarge, c6gd.4xlarge, c6gd.8xlarge, c6gd.large, c6gd.medium, c6gd.metal, c6gd.xlarger4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarge
Generationsc6gd.2xlarge, c7gd.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarger3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
Variantsc6a.2xlarge, c6g.2xlarge, c6gn.2xlarge, c6i.2xlarge, c6id.2xlarge, c6in.2xlarge
SageMakerml.c6gd.2xlarge
RDSdb.c6gd.2xlargedb.r4.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.2xlarge
OpenSearchr4.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance Storage1 x 475 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 4500 MBps1600 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2375 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput296.875 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps212.5 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 Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.76x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
c6gd.2xlarge
r4.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.30720.5480
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.36800.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.36800.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.37120.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.37120.6402
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.38401.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.3916n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.3920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.3920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.4040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.4160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.33280.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.4760n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.33920.5928
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.34880.5928
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.34880.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.35200.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.35600.6384
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.36000.6384
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.36000.6400
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.30720.5320
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.30720.5320
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.5320
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