i2.large vs r6gd.large

Instance Typei2.larger6gd.large
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsObsolete. 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
large – 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
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory15 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturen/aarm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core01
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarger6gd.12xlarge, r6gd.16xlarge, r6gd.2xlarge, r6gd.4xlarge, r6gd.8xlarge, r6gd.large, r6gd.medium, r6gd.metal, r6gd.xlarge
Generationsi2.large, i3.large, i4i.large, i7i.larger6gd.large, r7gd.large, r8gd.large
Variantsr6a.large, r6g.large, r6i.large, r6id.large, r6idn.large, r6in.large
SageMakerml.r6gd.large
RDSdb.r6gd.large
OpenSearchr6gd.large.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units7
Instance Storage1 x 800 SSD1 x 118 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 4500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth630 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput78.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3600 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces3
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface10
IPv6 Addresses per Interface10
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price DiffInfinityx

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
i2.large
r6gd.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a0.0747
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a0.1152
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.1384
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.1384
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.1384
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.1390
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.1390
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.1390
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.1390
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.1392
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.1518
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.1520
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.1216
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.1824
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.1264
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.1280
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.1280
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.1300
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.1352
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.1352
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.1380
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.1152
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a0.1152
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