r9gd.2xlarge vs trn1.2xlarge

Accelerators
Instance Type	r9gd.2xlarge	trn1.2xlarge
Instance Family	Memory optimized	Machine Learning ASIC
Details	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 9 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor d – Instance store volume 2xlarge – Size	Machine Learning (ML) training trn – AWS Trainium 1 – Generation 2xlarge – Size
vCPUs	8	8
Memory	64 GiB	32 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	x86_64
Processor	AWS Graviton5 Processor	Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake)
Clock Speed	3.3 GHz	3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core	1	2
GPU	no	no
GPUs		1
Inference Accelerator	no	no
Accelerator Memory		32 GiB
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	r9gd.12xlarge, r9gd.16xlarge, r9gd.24xlarge, r9gd.2xlarge, r9gd.48xlarge, r9gd.4xlarge, r9gd.8xlarge, r9gd.large, r9gd.medium, r9gd.metal-48xl, r9gd.xlarge	trn1.2xlarge, trn1.32xlarge
Generations	r6gd.2xlarge, r7gd.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r9gd.2xlarge
Variants	r9g.2xlarge
SageMaker		ml.trn1.2xlarge
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	yes	no
Instance Storage	1 x 474 NVMe SSD	1 x 475 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized	default	default
Encryption	supported	supported
NVMe	required	required
Dedicated Throughput	up to 12000 MBps	up to 20480 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth	3000 Mbps	5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput	375 Mbps	625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance	12000 IOPS	16250 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance	48000 IOPS	65000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth	12000 Mbps	20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput	1500 Mbps	2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance	Up to 17 Gigabit	12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networking	yes	yes
Max Interfaces	4	4
Max Cards	1	1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	30	15
IPv6 Addresses per Interface	30	15
IPv6 Support	yes	yes
ENA Support	required	required
EFA Support	no	no
Encryption in Transit Support	yes	yes
ENA SRD Support	no	no
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	2.00x

Regional Prices

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Shared Tenancy

On Demand

Geography	Region	r9gd.2xlarge	trn1.2xlarge
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	0.7698	n/a
US	US East (Ohio) (us-east-2)	0.6407	1.3438
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	0.6407	1.3438
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	0.6407	1.3438

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