z1d.xlarge vs p2.xlarge

Instance Typez1d.xlargep2.xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedGPU instance
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
xlarge – Size
GPU intensive tasks like machine/deep learning, high-performance computing

p – Performance / GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) accelerated
2 – Generation
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory32 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64n/a
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8151Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed4 GHz
Threads Per Core20
Accelerators
GPUnono
GPUs1
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesz1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlargep2.16xlarge, p2.8xlarge, p2.xlarge
RDSdb.z1d.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units2316
Instance Storage1 x 150 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2333 MBps750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1580 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput197.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6667 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13333 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces4
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.04x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
z1d.xlarge
p2.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.39200.9720
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.41601.0800
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.42201.3260
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.43901.4650
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.45001.5420
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.45001.5420
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.45201.7180
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.45201.7180
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.4540n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.37200.9000
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.37200.9000
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.37200.9000
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