x2iezn.6xlarge vs x8aedz.6xlarge

Accelerators
Instance Type	x2iezn.6xlarge	x8aedz.6xlarge
Instance Family	Memory optimized	Memory optimized
Details	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 i – Intel processor e – Extra storage or memory z – High performance n – Network and EBS optimized 6xlarge – 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 8 – Generation a – AMD processor e – Extra storage or memory d – Instance store volume z – High performance 6xlarge – Size
vCPUs	24	24
Memory	768 GiB	768 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	n/a
Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8252	AMD EPYC 9R05 Processor
Clock Speed	4.5 GHz
Threads Per Core	2	0
GPU	no	no
Inference Accelerator	no	no
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	x2iezn.12xlarge, x2iezn.2xlarge, x2iezn.4xlarge, x2iezn.6xlarge, x2iezn.8xlarge, x2iezn.metal	x8aedz.12xlarge, x8aedz.24xlarge, x8aedz.3xlarge, x8aedz.6xlarge, x8aedz.large, x8aedz.metal-12xl, x8aedz.metal-24xl, x8aedz.xlarge
RDS	db.x2iezn.6xlarge
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	no	no
Instance Storage	EBS only	1 x 1900 GB NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized	default
Encryption	supported
NVMe	required
Dedicated Throughput	9500 MBps	15000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth	9500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput	1187.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance	40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance	40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth	9500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput	1187.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance	50 Gigabit	18750 Megabit
Enhanced Networking	yes	yes
Max Interfaces	8
Max Cards	1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	30
IPv6 Addresses per Interface	30
IPv6 Support	yes	no
ENA Support	required
EFA Support	no	no
Encryption in Transit Support	yes	no
ENA SRD Support	no	no
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.45x

Regional Prices

Geography	Region	x2iezn.6xlarge	x8aedz.6xlarge
Asia Pacific	Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)	n/a	7.1107
Asia Pacific	Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1)	n/a	10.0103
Europe	Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1)	6.0000	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	6.1530	10.0103
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	7.2540	n/a
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	5.0040	n/a
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	5.0040	6.9036