c6gn.metal vs x2iezn.metal

Accelerators
Instance Type	c6gn.metal	x2iezn.metal
Instance Family	Compute optimized	Memory optimized
Details	High-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 6 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor n – Network and EBS optimized metal – Bare metal	In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps. x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive 2 – Generation i – Intel processor e – Extra storage or memory z – High performance n – Network and EBS optimized metal – Bare metal
vCPUs	64	48
Memory	128 GiB	1536 GiB
CPU Architecture	n/a	x86_64
Processor	AWS Graviton2 Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8252
Clock Speed		4.5 GHz
Threads Per Core	0	2
GPU	no	no
Inference Accelerator	no	no
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	c6gn.12xlarge, c6gn.16xlarge, c6gn.2xlarge, c6gn.4xlarge, c6gn.8xlarge, c6gn.large, c6gn.medium, c6gn.metal, c6gn.xlarge	x2iezn.12xlarge, x2iezn.2xlarge, x2iezn.4xlarge, x2iezn.6xlarge, x2iezn.8xlarge, x2iezn.metal
Generations	c6gn.metal, c7gn.metal
Variants	c6a.metal, c6g.metal, c6gd.metal, c6i.metal, c6id.metal, c6in.metal	x2gd.metal, x2idn.metal, x2iedn.metal
RDS		db.x2iezn.metal
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	no	no
Instance Storage	EBS only	EBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized		default
Encryption		supported
NVMe		required
Dedicated Throughput	38000 MBps	19000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth		19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput		2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance		80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance		80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth		19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput		2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance	100 Gigabit	100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networking	yes	yes
Max Interfaces		15
Max Cards		1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface		50
IPv6 Addresses per Interface		50
IPv6 Support	no	yes
ENA Support		required
EFA Support	no	yes
EFA Max Interfaces		1
Encryption in Transit Support	no	yes
ENA SRD Support	no	no
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	3.73x

Regional Prices

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Per Hour

Linux

Shared Tenancy

On Demand

Geography	Region	c6gn.metal	x2iezn.metal
Canada	Canada (Central) (ca-central-1)	3.0272	n/a
Europe	Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1)	n/a	12.0000
Europe	Europe (Paris) (eu-west-3)	3.2800	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	n/a	12.3060
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	n/a	14.5080
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	n/a	10.0080
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	n/a	10.0080