vt1.6xlarge vs cr1.8xlarge

Accelerators
Instance Type	vt1.6xlarge	cr1.8xlarge
Instance Family	Media Accelerator	Memory optimized
Details	Fast real-time video transcoding and cost-effective live video stream transcoding. vt – Video transcoding 1 – Generation 6xlarge – Size	Obsolete. Not recommended for use High memory and compute applications. cr – Compute Rich 1 – Generation 8xlarge – Size
vCPUs	24	32
Memory	48 GiB	244 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	n/a
Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL	Intel Xeon E5-2670
Clock Speed	2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core	2	0
GPU	no	no
Inference Accelerator	no	no
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	vt1.24xlarge, vt1.3xlarge, vt1.6xlarge	cr1.8xlarge
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	no	no
EC2 Compute Units		88
Instance Storage	EBS only	2 x 120 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized	default
Encryption	supported
NVMe	required
Dedicated Throughput	4750 MBps	400 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth	4750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput	593.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance	20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance	20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth	4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput	593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance	6250 Megabit	10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networking	no	no
Max Interfaces	8
Max Cards	1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	30
IPv6 Addresses per Interface	30
IPv6 Support	yes	no
ENA Support	required
EFA Support	no	no
Encryption in Transit Support	yes	no
ENA SRD Support	no	no
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	2.60x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)

Per Hour

Linux

Shared Tenancy

On Demand

Geography	Region	vt1.6xlarge	cr1.8xlarge
Europe	Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1)	1.4682	3.7500
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	1.6365	4.1050
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	1.3000	3.5000
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	1.3000	3.5000

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