Amazon EC2 z1d instances deliver high single thread performance due to a custom Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor with a sustained all core frequency of up to 4.
The z1d.xlarge is a aws ec2 instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for ec2 workloads.
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 4 |
| Memory | 32 GiB |
| Physical Processor | Intel Xeon Platinum 8151 |
| Clock Speed | 4 GHz |
| CPU Architecture | 64-bit |
| GPU Memory | NA |
| Network | Value |
| Network Performance | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| Enhanced Networking | Yes |
| Storage | Value |
| Storage | 1 x 150 NVMe SSD |
| EBS Throughput | Up to 2333 Mbps |
| Amazon | Value |
| Current Generation | Yes |
| Instance Type | z1d.xlarge |
| Family | Memory optimized |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| z1d.large | 2 | 16 |
| z1d.xlarge | 4 | 32 |
| z1d.2xlarge | 8 | 64 |
| z1d.3xlarge | 12 | 96 |
| z1d.6xlarge | 24 | 192 |
| z1d.12xlarge | 48 | 384 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| i8ge.xlarge | 4 | 32 GiB |
| r8a.xlarge | 4 | 32 GiB |
| r8gd.xlarge | 4 | 32 GiB |
| i8g.xlarge | 4 | 32 GiB |
| r8gb.xlarge | 4 | 32 GiB |

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