x2gd.large vs r7iz.large

Accelerators
Instance Type	x2gd.large	r7iz.large
Instance Family	Memory optimized	Memory optimized
Details	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 large – 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 i – Intel processor z – High performance large – Size
vCPUs	2	2
Memory	32 GiB	16 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	x86_64
Processor	AWS Graviton2 Processor	Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)
Clock Speed	2.5 GHz	3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core	1	2
GPU	no	no
Inference Accelerator	no	no
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	x2gd.12xlarge, x2gd.16xlarge, x2gd.2xlarge, x2gd.4xlarge, x2gd.8xlarge, x2gd.large, x2gd.medium, x2gd.metal, x2gd.xlarge	r7iz.12xlarge, r7iz.16xlarge, r7iz.2xlarge, r7iz.32xlarge, r7iz.4xlarge, r7iz.8xlarge, r7iz.large, r7iz.metal-16xl, r7iz.metal-32xl, r7iz.xlarge
Variants		r7a.large, r7g.large, r7gd.large, r7i.large
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	yes	yes
Instance Storage	1 x 118 SSD	EBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized	default	default
Encryption	supported	supported
NVMe	required	required
Dedicated Throughput	up to 4750 MBps	up to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth	630 Mbps	792 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput	78.75 Mbps	99 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance	3600 IOPS	3600 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance	20000 IOPS	40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth	4750 Mbps	10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput	593.75 Mbps	1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance	Up to 10 Gigabit	Up to 12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networking	yes	yes
Max Interfaces	3	3
Max Cards	1	1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	10	10
IPv6 Addresses per Interface	10	10
IPv6 Support	yes	yes
ENA Support	required	required
EFA Support	no	no
Encryption in Transit Support	no	yes
ENA SRD Support	no	no
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.16x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)

Per Hour

Linux

Shared Tenancy

On Demand

Geography	Region	x2gd.large	r7iz.large
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	0.2000	0.2080
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	n/a	0.2250
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	n/a	0.2270
US	US East (Ohio) (us-east-2)	0.1670	0.1860
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	0.1670	0.1860
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	0.1670	0.1860