c5.12xlarge vs r8gd.12xlarge

Instance Typec5.12xlarger8gd.12xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsHigh-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
5 – Generation
12xlarge – Size
High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs4848
Memory96 GiB384 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8275LAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.6 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc5.12xlarge, c5.18xlarge, c5.24xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c5.9xlarge, c5.large, c5.metal, c5.xlarger8gd.12xlarge, r8gd.16xlarge, r8gd.24xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gd.48xlarge, r8gd.4xlarge, r8gd.8xlarge, r8gd.large, r8gd.medium, r8gd.metal-24xl, r8gd.metal-48xl, r8gd.xlarge
Generationsc5.12xlarge, c6i.12xlarge, c7i.12xlarge, c8i.12xlarger6gd.12xlarge, r7gd.12xlarge, r8gd.12xlarge, r9gd.12xlarge
Variantsc5a.12xlarge, c5ad.12xlarge, c5d.12xlarger8a.12xlarge, r8g.12xlarge, r8gb.12xlarge, r8gn.12xlarge, r8i-flex.12xlarge, r8i.12xlarge, r8ib.12xlarge, r8id.12xlarge, r8idb.12xlarge, r8idn.12xlarge, r8in.12xlarge
SageMakerml.c5.12xlarge
RDSdb.r8gd.12xlarge
OpenSearchr8gd.12xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r8gd.12xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units188
Instance StorageEBS only3 x 950 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps15000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth9500 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1187.5 Mbps1875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth9500 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1187.5 Mbps1875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12 Gigabit22500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.69x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5.12xlarge
r8gd.12xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)2.0400n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)2.04002.2810
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.04003.5270
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.35204.0589
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.35204.1150
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.41904.1395
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.42404.1410
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.42404.2374
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.42404.2374
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.44804.2374
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.44804.2389
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.53404.2619
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.53404.2619
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.04003.6226
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)2.54404.2619
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)2.56104.2619
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)2.56804.2619
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)2.56804.2869
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)2.59204.6541
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)2.66404.6613
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)2.66405.5848
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)2.7360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)3.1440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.18403.7234
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.23203.8357
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.23203.8698
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.30403.8698
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.30403.9192
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.30403.9192
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.32803.9682
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a3.5270
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.04003.5270
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