x8g.2xlarge vs d2.2xlarge

Instance Typex8g.2xlarged2.2xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsIn-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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
2xlarge – Size
Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehousing, MapReduce/Hadoop computing, distributed/file network systems, and log/data-processing applications.

d – Disk / storage optimized
2 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory128 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesx8g.12xlarge, x8g.16xlarge, x8g.24xlarge, x8g.2xlarge, x8g.48xlarge, x8g.4xlarge, x8g.8xlarge, x8g.large, x8g.medium, x8g.metal-24xl, x8g.metal-48xl, x8g.xlarged2.2xlarge, d2.4xlarge, d2.8xlarge, d2.xlarge
Generationsd2.2xlarge, d3.2xlarge
Variantsx8i.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units28
Instance StorageEBS only6 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBps1000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 15 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.80x

Regional Prices

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x8g.2xlarge
d2.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.88981.3960
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.6530
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.6560
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.6560
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.7400
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a1.7400
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a1.7500
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a1.9140
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.93601.4700
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.93791.5180
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.09241.5440
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a1.5440
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a1.5440
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a1.5630
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a1.5880
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.6170
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.78161.3800
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.78161.3800
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.78161.3800
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