c9gd.2xlarge vs r7a.2xlarge

Instance Typec9gd.2xlarger7a.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
9 – 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
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton5 ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R14 Processor
Clock Speed3.3 GHz3.7 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc9gd.12xlarge, c9gd.16xlarge, c9gd.24xlarge, c9gd.2xlarge, c9gd.48xlarge, c9gd.4xlarge, c9gd.8xlarge, c9gd.large, c9gd.medium, c9gd.metal-48xl, c9gd.xlarger7a.12xlarge, r7a.16xlarge, r7a.24xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r7a.32xlarge, r7a.48xlarge, r7a.4xlarge, r7a.8xlarge, r7a.large, r7a.medium, r7a.metal-48xl, r7a.xlarge
Generationsc6gd.2xlarge, c7gd.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c9gd.2xlarger5a.2xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r8a.2xlarge
Variantsc9g.2xlarger7g.2xlarge, r7gd.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r7iz.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance Storage1 x 474 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 12000 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3000 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput375 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance48000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth12000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1500 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 17 GigabitUp to 12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.48x

Regional Prices

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Geography
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c9gd.2xlarge
r7a.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.49400.6279
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.6472
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.6810
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.6810
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.7342
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.7342
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.42720.6086
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.42720.6086
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.42720.6086
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