r4.2xlarge vs x2gd.2xlarge
| r4.2xlarge | x2gd.2xlarge |
| Memory optimized | Memory optimized |
| Obsolete. 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 | 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 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 61 GiB | 128 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) | AWS Graviton2 Processor |
| 2.3 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 2 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| r4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarge | x2gd.12xlarge, x2gd.16xlarge, x2gd.2xlarge, x2gd.4xlarge, x2gd.8xlarge, x2gd.large, x2gd.medium, x2gd.metal, x2gd.xlarge |
| r3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge | |
| x2iedn.2xlarge, x2iezn.2xlarge | |
| db.r4.2xlarge | |
| db.r4.2xlarge | |
| r4.2xlarge.search | |
| cache.r4.2xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| 31 | |
| EBS only | 1 x 474 SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| unsupported | required |
| 1600 MBps | up to 4750 MBps |
| 1700 Mbps | 2375 Mbps |
| 212.5 Mbps | 296.875 Mbps |
| 12000 IOPS | 12000 IOPS |
| 12000 IOPS | 20000 IOPS |
| 1700 Mbps | 4750 Mbps |
| 212.5 Mbps | 593.75 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| supported | required |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.11x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | r4.2xlarge | x2gd.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.5480 | 0.8000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.6400 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.6400 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.6400 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.6402 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 1.1200 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.5840 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.5928 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.5928 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.6240 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.6240 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.6384 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.6384 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.6400 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.5320 | 0.6680 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.5320 | 0.6680 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.5320 | 0.6680 |