z1d.12xlarge vs r7a.16xlarge

Instance Typez1d.12xlarger7a.16xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsHigh 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
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
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs4864
Memory384 GiB512 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8151AMD EPYC 9R14 Processor
Clock Speed4 GHz3.7 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesz1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlarger7a.12xlarge, r7a.16xlarge, r7a.24xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r7a.32xlarge, r7a.48xlarge, r7a.4xlarge, r7a.8xlarge, r7a.large, r7a.medium, r7a.metal-48xl, r7a.xlarge
Generationsr5a.16xlarge, r6a.16xlarge, r7a.16xlarge, r8a.16xlarge
Variantsr7g.16xlarge, r7gd.16xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r7iz.16xlarge
RDSdb.z1d.12xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units235
Instance Storage2 x 900 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput14000 MBps20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth19000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2375 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth19000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2375 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit25000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.05x

Regional Prices

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Region
z1d.12xlarge
r7a.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.70405.0234
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)4.99205.1776
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)5.06405.4483
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)5.27305.4483
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)5.40005.8733
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)5.40005.8733
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)5.4240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)5.4240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)5.4480n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.46404.8688
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.46404.8688
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.46404.8688
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