r6gd.2xlarge vs i3.2xlarge

Instance Typer6gd.2xlargei3.2xlarge
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
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
3 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.3 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.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.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.2xlargei3en.2xlarge
SageMakerml.r6gd.2xlarge
RDSdb.r6gd.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r6gd.2xlarge
OpenSearchr6gd.2xlarge.searchi3.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r6gd.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance Storage1 x 475 NVMe SSD1 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 4500 MBps1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2375 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput296.875 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.38x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r6gd.2xlarge
i3.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2990n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.46080.6520
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.55360.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.55360.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.55360.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.55600.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.55600.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.55600.7440
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.55600.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.55680.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.60720.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.60800.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.48640.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.72960.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.8180
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.8200
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.8240
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.9960
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.50560.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.51200.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51200.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.52000.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.54080.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.54080.7220
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.55200.7240
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.46080.6240
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.46080.6240
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.6240
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