z1d.xlarge vs x8i.xlarge

Instance Typez1d.xlargex8i.xlarge
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
xlarge – 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
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory32 GiB64 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
Variantsx8aedz.xlarge, x8g.xlarge
RDSdb.z1d.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units23
Instance Storage1 x 150 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2333 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1580 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput197.5 Mbps156.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6667 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13333 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 12500 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.xlarge
x8i.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.39200.4516
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.6346
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.6346
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.6346
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.6346
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.41600.4991
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.42200.5252
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.43900.5252
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.45000.5252
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.45000.5513
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.45200.5514
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.45200.5712
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.45400.6127
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.37200.4377
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.37200.4377
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.37200.4377
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