mac2.metal vs x2gd.metal
| mac2.metal | x2gd.metal |
| General purpose | Memory optimized |
| Provides macOS access for developing, building, testing, and signing applications. mac – Apple macOS 2 – Generation metal – Bare metal | In-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 metal – Bare metal |
| 8 | 64 |
| 16 GiB | 1024 GiB |
| arm64 | arm64 |
| Apple M1 chip with 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, and 16-core Neural Engine | AWS Graviton2 Processor |
| 3.2 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 2 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| mac2.metal | x2gd.12xlarge, x2gd.16xlarge, x2gd.2xlarge, x2gd.4xlarge, x2gd.8xlarge, x2gd.large, x2gd.medium, x2gd.metal, x2gd.xlarge |
| mac1.metal, mac2.metal | |
| mac2-m1ultra.metal, mac2-m2.metal, mac2-m2pro.metal | x2idn.metal, x2iedn.metal, x2iezn.metal |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| EBS only | 2 x 1900 SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| 1000 MBps | 19000 MBps |
| 10000 Mbps | 19000 Mbps |
| 1250 Mbps | 2375 Mbps |
| 55000 IOPS | 80000 IOPS |
| 55000 IOPS | 80000 IOPS |
| 10000 Mbps | 19000 Mbps |
| 1250 Mbps | 2375 Mbps |
| 25 Gigabit | |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 15 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 50 |
| 30 | 50 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| Infinityx |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | mac2.metal | x2gd.metal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 6.4000 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | n/a | 5.3440 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | n/a | 5.3440 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 5.3440 |