c7gd.2xlarge vs r6g.2xlarge

Instance Typec7gd.2xlarger6g.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.

c – Compute optimized
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
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.

r – RAM / memory optimized
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.6 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc7gd.12xlarge, c7gd.16xlarge, c7gd.2xlarge, c7gd.4xlarge, c7gd.8xlarge, c7gd.large, c7gd.medium, c7gd.metal, c7gd.xlarger6g.12xlarge, r6g.16xlarge, r6g.2xlarge, r6g.4xlarge, r6g.8xlarge, r6g.large, r6g.medium, r6g.metal, r6g.xlarge
Generationsc6gd.2xlarge, c7gd.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c9gd.2xlarger6g.2xlarge, r7g.2xlarge, r8g.2xlarge
Variantsc7a.2xlarge, c7g.2xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c7i-flex.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarger6a.2xlarge, r6gd.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r6id.2xlarge, r6idn.2xlarge, r6in.2xlarge
SageMakerml.r6g.2xlarge
RDSdb.r6g.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r6g.2xlarge
OpenSearchr6g.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r6g.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance Storage1 x 475 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 4500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps296.875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 15 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 Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.10x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c7gd.2xlarge
r6g.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.2600
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)0.3598n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.23040.2600
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.36290.4032
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.42340.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.43470.4512
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.43470.4512
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.43850.4720
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.43850.4736
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.45360.4736
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.46110.4738
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.46120.4832
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.46150.4832
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.47630.4832
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.36290.4032
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.56320.4832
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.4864
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.4864
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.4864
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.4864
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.4864
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.4880
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.4963
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.4963
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.5074
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.39310.4134
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.5350
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.5360
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.5376
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a0.6432
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.40060.4134
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.41200.4234
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.41200.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.41580.4378
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.41960.4416
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.42340.4416
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.36290.4032
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