r5a.2xlarge vs z1d.2xlarge

Instance Typer5a.2xlargez1d.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
a – AMD processor
2xlarge – Size
High 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
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571Intel Xeon Platinum 8151
Clock Speed2.5 GHz4 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5a.12xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5a.24xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5a.large, r5a.xlargez1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlarge
Generationsr5a.2xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r8a.2xlarge
Variantsr5.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge
RDSdb.z1d.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units45
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 300 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBps2333 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1580 Mbps3170 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput197.5 Mbps396.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8333 IOPS13333 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS13333 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps3170 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 Mbps396.25 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 Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.63x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r5a.2xlarge
z1d.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2860n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.45200.7840
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.5440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.5440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.5440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.5480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.5480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.7240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.49600.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.50400.8440
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.50800.8790
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.53200.9000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.53200.9000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.53200.9040
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.54400.9040
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.54400.9080
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.45200.7440
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.45200.7440
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.7440
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