z1d.metal vs x2gd.metal

Instance Typez1d.metalx2gd.metal
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
metal – Bare metal
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
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs4864
Memory384 GiB1024 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8151AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed4 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesz1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlargex2gd.12xlarge, x2gd.16xlarge, x2gd.2xlarge, x2gd.4xlarge, x2gd.8xlarge, x2gd.large, x2gd.medium, x2gd.metal, x2gd.xlarge
Variantsx2idn.metal, x2iedn.metal, x2iezn.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units271
Instance Storage2 x 900 NVMe SSD2 x 1900 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput14000 MBps19000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth19000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2375 Mbps2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth19000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2375 Mbps2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.11x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
z1d.metal
x2gd.metal
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.70406.4000
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)4.9920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)5.0640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)5.2730n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)5.4000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)5.4000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)5.4240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)5.4240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)5.4480n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.46405.3440
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.46405.3440
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.46405.3440
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