r6a.16xlarge vs z1d.12xlarge

Instance Typer6a.16xlargez1d.12xlarge
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
6 – Generation
a – AMD processor
16xlarge – 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
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs6448
Memory512 GiB384 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R13 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8151
Clock Speed3.6 GHz4 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr6a.12xlarge, r6a.16xlarge, r6a.24xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r6a.32xlarge, r6a.48xlarge, r6a.4xlarge, r6a.8xlarge, r6a.large, r6a.metal, r6a.xlargez1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlarge
Generationsr5a.16xlarge, r6a.16xlarge, r7a.16xlarge, r8a.16xlarge
Variantsr6g.16xlarge, r6gd.16xlarge, r6i.16xlarge, r6id.16xlarge, r6idn.16xlarge, r6in.16xlarge
RDSdb.z1d.12xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units235
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput13333 MBps14000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth20000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2500 Mbps2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth20000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2500 Mbps2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25000 Megabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.33x

Regional Prices

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Per Hour
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Shared Tenancy
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Geography
Region
r6a.16xlarge
z1d.12xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)2.2880n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)2.2880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.62884.7040
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)4.3776n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.62884.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.97445.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)4.03205.2730
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)4.06085.4000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)4.26245.4000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)4.34885.4240
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)4.37765.4240
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)4.37765.4480
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a4.4640
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.62884.4640
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a4.4640
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