z1d.6xlarge vs d2.8xlarge

Instance Typez1d.6xlarged2.8xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsHigh 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
6xlarge – 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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs2436
Memory192 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8151Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed4 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesz1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlarged2.2xlarge, d2.4xlarge, d2.8xlarge, d2.xlarge
Generationsd2.8xlarge, d3.8xlarge
RDSdb.z1d.6xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units116116
Instance Storage1 x 900 NVMe SSD24 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps4000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth9500 Mbps4000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1187.5 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS32000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS32000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth9500 Mbps4000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1187.5 Mbps500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.53x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
z1d.6xlarge
d2.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.35205.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a6.6120
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a6.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a6.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a6.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a6.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a6.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a6.9600
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a6.9600
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a7.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a7.6560
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.49605.8800
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.53206.0720
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.63606.1740
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.70006.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.70006.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.71206.2500
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.71206.3520
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.72406.4680
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.23205.5200
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.23205.5200
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.23205.5200
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