x2gd.2xlarge vs i3.2xlarge

Instance Typex2gd.2xlargei3.2xlarge
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
2 – 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
Memory128 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
Sizesx2gd.12xlarge, x2gd.16xlarge, x2gd.2xlarge, x2gd.4xlarge, x2gd.8xlarge, x2gd.large, x2gd.medium, x2gd.metal, x2gd.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsi2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsx2iedn.2xlarge, x2iezn.2xlargei3en.2xlarge
OpenSearchi3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance Storage1 x 474 SSD1 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 4750 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 Diff1.00x1.05x

Regional Prices

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x2gd.2xlarge
i3.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.80000.6520
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.7440
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.7520
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)n/a0.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.7220
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.7240
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.66800.6240
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.66800.6240
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.66800.6240
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