r5.2xlarge vs x1e.2xlarge

Instance Typer5.2xlargex1e.2xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsHigh-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
5 – 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
1 – Generation
e – Extra storage or memory
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175High Frequency Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5.12xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r5.24xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r5.large, r5.metal, r5.xlargex1e.16xlarge, x1e.2xlarge, x1e.32xlarge, x1e.4xlarge, x1e.8xlarge, x1e.xlarge
Generationsr3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
Variantsr5a.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge
SageMakerml.r5.2xlarge
RDSdb.r5.2xlarge, db.r5.2xlarge.tpc1.mem2x, db.r5.2xlarge.tpc2.mem4x, db.r5.2xlarge.tpc2.mem8xdb.x1e.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r5.2xlarge
OpenSearchr5.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r5.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units3723
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 240 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 4750 MBps1000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2300 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput287.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS7400 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance18750 IOPS7400 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.65x

Regional Prices

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r5.2xlarge
x1e.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.52001.7200
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.59202.4180
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.59202.4180
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.59202.4180
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.60403.2510
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.6040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.6040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.6040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.6080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.6080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.6080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.52001.8340
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.6080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.6080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.6080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.6200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.6200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.6680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.6690n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.6720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.8040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.53602.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.55202.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.55202.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.56002.3340
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.56402.3800
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.56402.4180
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.59202.4180
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.50401.6680
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.50401.6680
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.50401.6680
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