z1d.2xlarge vs x8i.2xlarge

Instance Typez1d.2xlargex8i.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
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
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8151Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed4 GHz3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesz1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlargex8i.12xlarge, x8i.16xlarge, x8i.24xlarge, x8i.2xlarge, x8i.32xlarge, x8i.48xlarge, x8i.4xlarge, x8i.64xlarge, x8i.8xlarge, x8i.96xlarge, x8i.large, x8i.metal-48xl, x8i.metal-96xl, x8i.xlarge
Variantsx8g.2xlarge
RDSdb.z1d.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units45
Instance Storage1 x 300 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput2333 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3170 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput396.25 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance13333 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13333 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 15000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.29x

Regional Prices

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z1d.2xlarge
x8i.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.78400.9031
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.2692
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.2692
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.2692
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.2692
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.83200.9982
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.84401.0504
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.87901.0504
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.90001.0504
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.90001.1026
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.90401.1029
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.90401.1423
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.90801.2255
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.74400.8753
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.74400.8753
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.74400.8753
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