AWS Amazon EC2

d2.xlarge

Prev Gen

Part of the D2 Storage Optimized family — High, sequential read/write access to large local datasets.

Name:dStorage Optimized (Dense HDD)22nd GenerationxlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.6900/ hr

~$503.70/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.3530/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −49% vs on-demand rate (eu-north-1)

Per unit

$0.1725/ vCPU-hr

$0.0226/GB-hr

Compute

4vCPUs

2 cores • x86_64

Memory

31GB

7.6 GB / vCPU

Network

Moderate

Baseline: 1.25 Gbps

Storage & EBS

93.75MB/s

Max: 6,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to d2.xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs d2.xlarge
d2.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	4 vCPU · 30.5 GiB	$0.6900/hr	—
c4-highmem-4-lssd4 vCPU and 31 GiB for 4 vCPU and 30.5 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 31 GiB	$0.34287/hr	50% less
c4-highmem-44 vCPU and 31 GiB for 4 vCPU and 30.5 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; local disk on d2.xlarge only	4 vCPU · 31 GiB	$0.260678/hr	62% less
n4-highmem-44 vCPU and 32 GiB for 4 vCPU and 30.5 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; local disk on d2.xlarge only	4 vCPU · 32 GiB	$0.23804/hr	66% less

Matched on vCPU and memory, then CPU vendor, then rate; a larger size is offered only when nothing is the same size. On-demand Linux only: Spot and commitments work differently on the two clouds, so they aren't compared here.

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads4 vCPUs

Physical Cores2

Clock Speed2.4 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score58,190

CoreMark / vCPU14,547.6 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding23 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar84,333 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.1725

Cost per GB-hr$0.0226

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods58 pods

Max ENIs4

IPv4/v6 per ENI15

Total Addressable IPs60 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceModerate

Baseline Bandwidth1.25 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth2.8 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationHDD (6000 GB)

Local NVMe Disk6,000 GB HDD

EBS Baseline Throughput93.75 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput93.75 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS6,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS6,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput750 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor8

Generation StatusPrevious Generation

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.6900/ hr

US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)

Highest Price Region

$0.9570/ hr

Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) (ap-east-1)

Global Fleet Average

$0.7977/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

22regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 22 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$0.8750
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Highest	$0.9570
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.8270
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$0.8440
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.8440
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.8700
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.8700
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.8440
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$0.8280
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.8280
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.7590
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.7940
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.7350
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.7720
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$0.7720
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.7720
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$0.6980
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$0.8090
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.6900
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.6900
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.7810
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.6900

Windows — Available in all 22 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$1.0590
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Highest	$1.1410
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$1.0110
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$1.0280
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$1.0280
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$1.0010
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$1.0010
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.9750
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$1.0120
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.9760
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.9430
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.9250
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.8660
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.9560
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$0.9560
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.9560
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$0.8820
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$0.9930
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.8210
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.8210
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.9650
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.8210

Savings Plans: what to know

A Savings Plan commits you to a dollar amount per hour of spend for one or three years, not to an instance: usage up to that amount is billed at the plan's rates and the rest at on-demand, and unused commitment is still billed.
A Compute Savings Plan follows your usage across instance families, sizes, regions and operating systems; an EC2 Instance Savings Plan is locked to one family in one region in exchange for a lower rate (what that flexibility costs).
In EU (Stockholm) (eu-north-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for d2.xlarge on Linux is 51% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 51% of the hours for the commitment to cost less than on-demand.
On Windows a plan discounts only the compute part of the rate: the Windows license part costs the same as on demand, so the percentage off is smaller than on Linux.
Rates are AWS's effective hourly rate for each payment option; All Upfront pays the whole term's commitment at purchase, which is why its hourly rate is lower; Partial Upfront (at least half up front) isn't shown on this page. The Savings Plans calculator has all three and sizes a commitment for this instance or a mix of them. How AWS applies a plan each hour: how Compute Savings Plans decide what they cover. Sizing one for elastic workloads: managing Compute Savings Plans.