c5.4xlarge vs r6a.4xlarge

Instance Typec5.4xlarger6a.4xlarge
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
4xlarge – 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
6 – Generation
a – AMD processor
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8124MAMD EPYC 7R13 Processor
Clock Speed3.4 GHz3.6 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.xlarger6a.12xlarge, r6a.16xlarge, r6a.24xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r6a.32xlarge, r6a.48xlarge, r6a.4xlarge, r6a.8xlarge, r6a.large, r6a.metal, r6a.xlarge
Generationsc3.4xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c6i.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarge, c8i.4xlarger5a.4xlarge, r6a.4xlarge, r7a.4xlarge, r8a.4xlarge
Variantsc5a.4xlarge, c5ad.4xlarge, c5d.4xlarge, c5n.4xlarger6g.4xlarge, r6gd.4xlarge, r6i.4xlarge, r6id.4xlarge, r6idn.4xlarge, r6in.4xlarge
SageMakerml.c5.4xlarge
OpenSearchc5.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units73
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2250 MBpsup to 6667 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth4750 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput593.75 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 12500 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 Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.18x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5.4xlarge
r6a.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.68000.5720
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.68000.5720
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.68000.9072
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.78401.0944
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.7840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.8060n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.8080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.8080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.8080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.8160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.8160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.8450n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.8450n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.68000.9072
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.8480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.8540n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.8560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.8560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.8640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.8880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.8880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.9120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)1.0480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.72800.9936
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.74401.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.74401.0152
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.76801.0656
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.76801.0872
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.76801.0944
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.77601.0944
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.68000.9072
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