r6gd.2xlarge vs i2.2xlarge

Instance Typer6gd.2xlargei2.2xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsHigh-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
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
2 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr6gd.12xlarge, r6gd.16xlarge, r6gd.2xlarge, r6gd.4xlarge, r6gd.8xlarge, r6gd.large, r6gd.medium, r6gd.metal, r6gd.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsr6gd.2xlarge, r7gd.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlargei2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsr6a.2xlarge, r6g.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r6id.2xlarge, r6idn.2xlarge, r6in.2xlarge
SageMakerml.r6gd.2xlarge
RDSdb.r6gd.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r6gd.2xlarge
OpenSearchr6gd.2xlarge.searchi2.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r6gd.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units27
Instance Storage1 x 475 NVMe SSD2 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 4500 MBps1500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2375 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput296.875 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.59x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r6gd.2xlarge
i2.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2990n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.46081.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.5536n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.5536n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.5536n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.5560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.5560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.5560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.5560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.5568n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.6072n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.6080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.48641.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.7296n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.50561.9330
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.51202.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51202.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.52002.0260
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.54082.0350
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.54082.0350
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.55202.0460
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.46081.7050
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.46081.7050
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.7050
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