c7gn.metal vs x2iezn.metal

Accelerators
Instance Type	c7gn.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 7 – 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	arm64	x86_64
Processor	AWS Graviton3 Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8252
Clock Speed	2.6 GHz	4.5 GHz
Threads Per Core	1	2
GPU	no	no
Inference Accelerator	no	no
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	c7gn.12xlarge, c7gn.16xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c7gn.large, c7gn.medium, c7gn.metal, c7gn.xlarge	x2iezn.12xlarge, x2iezn.2xlarge, x2iezn.4xlarge, x2iezn.6xlarge, x2iezn.8xlarge, x2iezn.metal
Generations	c6gn.metal, c7gn.metal
Variants	c7g.metal, c7gd.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	default
Encryption	supported	supported
NVMe	required	required
Dedicated Throughput	40000 MBps	19000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth	33333 Mbps	19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput	4166.625 Mbps	2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance	133333 IOPS	80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance	160000 IOPS	80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth	40000 Mbps	19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput	5000 Mbps	2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance	200 Gigabit	100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networking	yes	yes
Max Interfaces	15	15
Max Cards	1	1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	50	50
IPv6 Addresses per Interface	50	50
IPv6 Support	yes	yes
ENA Support	required	required
EFA Support	yes	yes
EFA Max Interfaces	1	1
Encryption in Transit Support	yes	yes
ENA SRD Support	yes	no
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	2.73x

Regional Prices

Geography	Region	c7gn.metal	x2iezn.metal
Europe	Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1)	n/a	12.0000
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	4.5120	12.3060
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	5.0368	14.5080
US	US East (Ohio) (us-east-2)	3.9936	n/a
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	3.9936	10.0080
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	3.9936	10.0080