c8a.2xlarge vs z1d.2xlarge

Instance Typec8a.2xlargez1d.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
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
2xlarge – 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
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8151
Clock Speed4.5 GHz4 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc8a.12xlarge, c8a.16xlarge, c8a.24xlarge, c8a.2xlarge, c8a.48xlarge, c8a.4xlarge, c8a.8xlarge, c8a.large, c8a.medium, c8a.metal-24xl, c8a.metal-48xl, c8a.xlargez1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlarge
Generationsc5a.2xlarge, c6a.2xlarge, c7a.2xlarge, c8a.2xlarge
Variantsc8g.2xlarge, c8gb.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c8gn.2xlarge, c8i-flex.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge, c8ib.2xlarge, c8id.2xlarge, c8in.2xlarge, c8ine.2xlarge
RDSdb.z1d.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units45
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 300 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBps2333 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps3170 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps396.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS13333 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS13333 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps3170 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps396.25 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 15000 MegabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface4015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface4015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.81x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
c8a.2xlarge
z1d.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.46240.7840
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46250.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.49200.8440
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.54260.8790
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.9000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.9000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.9040
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.9040
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.9080
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.43110.7440
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.43110.7440
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.43110.7440
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