m5a.4xlarge vs c4.4xlarge

Instance Typem5a.4xlargec4.4xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
4xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

c – Compute optimized
4 – Generation
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory64 GiB30 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.9 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5a.12xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5a.24xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5a.4xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5a.large, m5a.xlargec4.2xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c4.large, c4.xlarge
Generationsm5a.4xlarge, m6a.4xlarge, m7a.4xlarge, m8a.4xlargec3.4xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c6i.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarge, c8i.4xlarge
Variantsm5.4xlarge, m5ad.4xlarge, m5d.4xlarge, m5dn.4xlarge, m5n.4xlarge
SageMakerml.c4.4xlarge
OpenSearchc4.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units62
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput2120 MBps2000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2880 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput360 Mbps250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 Mbps250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.16x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m5a.4xlarge
c4.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.68800.8000
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.86401.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.86401.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.87201.0420
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.87201.2350
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.8960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.1040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.76800.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.76800.9050
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.80000.9070
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.80800.9090
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.80800.9240
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.80800.9500
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.83200.9580
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.84800.9970
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.68800.7960
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.68800.7960
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.7960
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