r6g.12xlarge vs x1.16xlarge

Instance Typer6g.12xlargex1.16xlarge
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
g – AWS Graviton processor
12xlarge – 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
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs4864
Memory384 GiB976 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorHigh Frequency Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr6g.12xlarge, r6g.16xlarge, r6g.2xlarge, r6g.4xlarge, r6g.8xlarge, r6g.large, r6g.medium, r6g.metal, r6g.xlargex1.16xlarge, x1.32xlarge
Generationsr6g.12xlarge, r7g.12xlarge, r8g.12xlarge, r9g.12xlargex1.16xlarge, x8i.16xlarge
Variantsr6a.12xlarge, r6gd.12xlarge, r6i.12xlarge, r6id.12xlarge, r6idn.12xlarge, r6in.12xlargex1e.16xlarge
SageMakerml.r6g.12xlarge
RDSdb.r6g.12xlargedb.x1.16xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r6g.12xlarge
OpenSearchr6g.12xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r6g.12xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units174.5
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1920 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput13500 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth14250 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1781.25 Mbps875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance50000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance50000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth14250 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1781.25 Mbps875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance20 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.16x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r6g.12xlarge
x1.16xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)1.5600n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.5600n/a
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HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.70729.6710
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HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.83209.6710
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.84169.6710
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.841610.6380
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.842613.0050
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.8992n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.8992n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.8992n/a
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HiddenHidden (hidden-20)2.8992n/a
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HiddenHidden (hidden-25)2.9184n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)2.9280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)2.9779n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)2.9779n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)3.0442n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.48068.0030
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)3.2102n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)3.2160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)3.2256n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)3.8592n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.48068.0030
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.54028.0030
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.56808.4030
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.62668.4030
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.64969.3370
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.64969.5240
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a6.6690
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.41926.6690
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a6.6690
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