Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) X2gd instances are the next generation of memory-optimized instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors.
The x2gd.xlarge is a aws ec2 instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for ec2 workloads.
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 4 |
| Memory | 64 GiB |
| Physical Processor | AWS Graviton2 Processor |
| Clock Speed | 2.5 GHz |
| CPU Architecture | 64-bit |
| GPU Memory | NA |
| Network | Value |
| Network Performance | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| Enhanced Networking | Yes |
| Storage | Value |
| Storage | 1 x 237 SSD |
| EBS Throughput | Up to 4750 Mbps |
| Amazon | Value |
| Current Generation | Yes |
| Instance Type | x2gd.xlarge |
| Family | Memory optimized |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| x2gd.medium | 1 | 16 |
| x2gd.large | 2 | 32 |
| x2gd.xlarge | 4 | 64 |
| x2gd.2xlarge | 8 | 128 |
| x2gd.4xlarge | 16 | 256 |
| x2gd.8xlarge | 32 | 512 |
| x2gd.12xlarge | 48 | 768 |
| x2gd.16xlarge | 64 | 1024 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| p2.xlarge | 4 | 61 GiB |

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