vt1.3xlarge vs x1e.4xlarge

Instance Typevt1.3xlargex1e.4xlarge
Instance FamilyMedia AcceleratorMemory optimized
DetailsFast real-time video transcoding and cost-effective live video stream transcoding.

vt – Video transcoding
1 – Generation
3xlarge – 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
e – Extra storage or memory
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1216
Memory24 GiB488 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259CLHigh Frequency Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesvt1.24xlarge, vt1.3xlarge, vt1.6xlargex1e.16xlarge, x1e.2xlarge, x1e.32xlarge, x1e.4xlarge, x1e.8xlarge, x1e.xlarge
RDSdb.x1e.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units47
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 480 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput2375 MBps1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2375 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput296.875 Mbps218.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps218.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance3125 MegabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x6.07x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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Geography
Region
vt1.3xlarge
x1e.4xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)0.7341n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.81823.4400
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a4.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a4.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a4.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a6.5020
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a3.6670
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a4.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a4.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a4.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a4.6680
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a4.7600
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a4.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a4.8360
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a3.3360
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.65003.3360
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.65003.3360
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