c5.18xlarge vs m5.16xlarge

Instance Typec5.18xlargem5.16xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedGeneral purpose
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
18xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs7264
Memory144 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8124MIntel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed3.4 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc5.12xlarge, c5.18xlarge, c5.24xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c5.9xlarge, c5.large, c5.metal, c5.xlargem5.12xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m5.24xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m5.4xlarge, m5.8xlarge, m5.large, m5.metal, m5.xlarge
Generationsm4.16xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m6i.16xlarge, m7i.16xlarge, m8i.16xlarge
Variantsc5d.18xlarge, c5n.18xlargem5a.16xlarge, m5ad.16xlarge, m5d.16xlarge, m5dn.16xlarge, m5n.16xlarge
SageMakerml.c5.18xlargeml.m5.16xlarge
RDSdb.m5.16xlarge
OpenSearchc5.18xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units281256
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput9000 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth19000 Mbps13600 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2375 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth19000 Mbps13600 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2375 Mbps1700 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit20 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.02x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5.18xlarge
m5.16xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)3.0600n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)3.0600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.06003.2320
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.52803.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.52803.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.62903.5950
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.63603.6800
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.63603.7660
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)3.63603.7660
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)3.67203.7760
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)3.67203.8400
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)3.80203.8400
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)3.80203.8400
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.06003.2320
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.81603.8400
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.84103.8720
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.85203.8720
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.85203.9680
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.88803.9680
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.99604.0480
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.99604.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)4.10404.2240
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)4.71604.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.27603.2640
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.34803.4240
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.34803.4240
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.45603.4240
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.45603.4240
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.45603.5520
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.49203.5840
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a3.0720
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.06003.0720
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a3.0720
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