z1d.2xlarge vs x1e.4xlarge

Instance Typez1d.2xlargex1e.4xlarge
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
2xlarge – 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
vCPUs816
Memory64 GiB488 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.2xlargedb.x1e.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units4547
Instance Storage1 x 300 NVMe SSD1 x 480 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput2333 MBps1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3170 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput396.25 Mbps218.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance13333 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13333 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps218.75 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

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z1d.2xlarge
x1e.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.78403.4400
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)0.83203.6670
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.84404.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.87904.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.90004.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.90004.6680
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.90404.7600
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.90404.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.90804.8360
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.74403.3360
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.74403.3360
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.74403.3360
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