r6gd.2xlarge vs is4gen.2xlarge

Instance Typer6gd.2xlargeis4gen.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.

is – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to six ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB48 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr6gd.12xlarge, r6gd.16xlarge, r6gd.2xlarge, r6gd.4xlarge, r6gd.8xlarge, r6gd.large, r6gd.medium, r6gd.metal, r6gd.xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Generationsr6gd.2xlarge, r7gd.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge
Variantsr6a.2xlarge, r6g.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r6id.2xlarge, r6idn.2xlarge, r6in.2xlarge
SageMakerml.r6gd.2xlarge
RDSdb.r6gd.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r6gd.2xlarge
OpenSearchr6gd.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r6gd.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance Storage1 x 475 NVMe SSD1 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 4500 MBpsup to 9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2375 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput296.875 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.43x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r6gd.2xlarge
is4gen.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2990n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.46081.2750
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)0.48641.2750
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.7296n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.50561.3100
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.51201.3413
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51201.3413
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.52001.3566
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.54081.3770
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.54081.3821
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.55201.3821
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.46081.1526
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.46081.1526
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.1526
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