z1d.large vs m3.xlarge

Instance Typez1d.largem3.xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedGeneral purpose
DetailsHigh memory and compute applications; suitable for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and certain relational database workloads.

z – Zippy / Compute and memory optimized
1 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
large – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
3 – Generation
xlarge – Size
vCPUs24
Memory16 GiB15 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8151Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)
Clock Speed4 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesz1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlargem3.2xlarge, m3.large, m3.medium, m3.xlarge
Generationsm1.xlarge, m2.xlarge, m3.xlarge, m4.xlarge, m5.xlarge, m6i.xlarge, m7i.xlarge, m8i.xlarge
RDSdb.z1d.largedb.m3.xlarge
OpenSearchm3.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units1213
Instance Storage1 x 75 NVMe SSD2 x 40 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 2333 MBps500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth800 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput100 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3333 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13333 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces34
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface10
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.59x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
z1d.large
m3.xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a0.2930
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.19600.3080
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.20800.3150
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.21100.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.22000.3660
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.22500.3720
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.22500.3810
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.22600.3850
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.22600.3920
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.2270n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.1860n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.18600.2660
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.18600.2660
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