r4.2xlarge vs trn1.2xlarge

Instance Typer4.2xlargetrn1.2xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedMachine Learning ASIC
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
High-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
4 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
Machine Learning (ML) training

trn – AWS Trainium
1 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory61 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
GPUs1
Inference Acceleratornono
Accelerator Memory32 GiB
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlargetrn1.2xlarge, trn1.32xlarge
Generationsr3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
SageMakerml.trn1.2xlarge
RDSdb.r4.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.2xlarge
OpenSearchr4.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 475 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1600 MBpsup to 20480 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1700 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput212.5 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS16250 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS65000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1700 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput212.5 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.12x

Regional Prices

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Per Hour
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Region
r4.2xlarge
trn1.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.5480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.6400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.6400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.6400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.6402n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.1200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.5840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.5928n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.5928n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.6240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.6240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.6384n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.6384n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.6400n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.53201.3438
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.53201.3438
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.53201.3438
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