r7i.12xlarge vs x2gd.12xlarge

Instance Typer7i.12xlargex2gd.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
7 – Generation
i – Intel 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
2 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs4848
Memory384 GiB768 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed3.2 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr7i.12xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r7i.24xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r7i.48xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r7i.large, r7i.metal-24xl, r7i.metal-48xl, r7i.xlargex2gd.12xlarge, x2gd.16xlarge, x2gd.2xlarge, x2gd.4xlarge, x2gd.8xlarge, x2gd.large, x2gd.medium, x2gd.metal, x2gd.xlarge
Generationsr6i.12xlarge, r7i.12xlarge, r8i.12xlarge
Variantsr7a.12xlarge, r7g.12xlarge, r7gd.12xlarge, r7iz.12xlargex2iezn.12xlarge
SageMakerml.r7i.12xlarge
RDSdb.r7i.12xlarge
OpenSearchr7i.12xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 1425 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput15000 MBps14250 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth15000 Mbps14250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1875 Mbps1781.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance60000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth15000 Mbps14250 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1875 Mbps1781.25 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance18750 Megabit20 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.16x

Regional Prices

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Region
r7i.12xlarge
x2gd.12xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.25584.8000
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.5532n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.5532n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.7296n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.7296n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.7296n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)3.8052n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)3.8052n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)3.8052n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)3.8052n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)3.8304n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.2558n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.8304n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.8304n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.8304n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.8304n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.8304n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.9955n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)5.0652n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.2760n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.2760n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.3341n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.3768n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.4474n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.4776n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.5280n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)3.17524.0080
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.17524.0080
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)3.17524.0080
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