z1d.xlarge vs x1e.2xlarge

Instance Typez1d.xlargex1e.2xlarge
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
xlarge – 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
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs48
Memory32 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8151High Frequency Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed4 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesz1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlargex1e.16xlarge, x1e.2xlarge, x1e.32xlarge, x1e.4xlarge, x1e.8xlarge, x1e.xlarge
RDSdb.z1d.xlargedb.x1e.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units2323
Instance Storage1 x 150 NVMe SSD1 x 240 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 2333 MBps1000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1580 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput197.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6667 IOPS7400 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13333 IOPS7400 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x5.15x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
z1d.xlarge
x1e.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.39201.7200
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.4180
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.4180
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.4180
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a3.2510
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.41601.8340
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.42202.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.43902.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.45002.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.45002.3340
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.45202.3800
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.45202.4180
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.45402.4180
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.37201.6680
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.37201.6680
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.37201.6680
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