x8g.metal-24xl vs x8aedz.metal-24xl

Accelerators
Instance Type	x8g.metal-24xl	x8aedz.metal-24xl
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 8 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor metal-24xl – 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 8 – Generation a – AMD processor e – Extra storage or memory d – Instance store volume z – High performance metal-24xl – Bare metal
vCPUs	96	96
Memory	1536 GiB	3072 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	n/a
Processor	AWS Graviton4 Processor	AMD EPYC 9R05 Processor
Clock Speed	2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core	1	0
GPU	no	no
Inference Accelerator	no	no
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	x8g.12xlarge, x8g.16xlarge, x8g.24xlarge, x8g.2xlarge, x8g.48xlarge, x8g.4xlarge, x8g.8xlarge, x8g.large, x8g.medium, x8g.metal-24xl, x8g.metal-48xl, x8g.xlarge	x8aedz.12xlarge, x8aedz.24xlarge, x8aedz.3xlarge, x8aedz.6xlarge, x8aedz.large, x8aedz.metal-12xl, x8aedz.metal-24xl, x8aedz.xlarge
Variants	x8aedz.metal-24xl	x8g.metal-24xl
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	no	no
Instance Storage	EBS only	2 x 3800 GB NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized	default
Encryption	supported
NVMe	required
Dedicated Throughput	30720 MBps	60000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth	30000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput	3750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance	120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance	120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth	30000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput	3750 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance	40 Gigabit	75000 Megabit
Enhanced Networking	yes	yes
Max Interfaces	15
Max Cards	1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	50
IPv6 Addresses per Interface	50
IPv6 Support	yes	no
ENA Support	required
EFA Support	yes	no
EFA Max Interfaces	1
Encryption in Transit Support	yes	no
ENA SRD Support	yes	no
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	3.23x

Regional Prices

Geography	Region	x8g.metal-24xl	x8aedz.metal-24xl
Asia Pacific	Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)	n/a	28.4429
Asia Pacific	Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1)	n/a	40.0411
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	10.6781	40.0411
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	11.2550	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	13.1088	n/a
US	US East (Ohio) (us-east-2)	9.3792	n/a
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	9.3792	n/a
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	9.3792	27.6144