c5a.16xlarge vs r8g.16xlarge

Instance Typec5a.16xlarger8g.16xlarge
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
a – AMD processor
16xlarge – 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
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory128 GiB512 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc5a.12xlarge, c5a.16xlarge, c5a.24xlarge, c5a.2xlarge, c5a.4xlarge, c5a.8xlarge, c5a.large, c5a.xlarger8g.12xlarge, r8g.16xlarge, r8g.24xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8g.48xlarge, r8g.4xlarge, r8g.8xlarge, r8g.large, r8g.medium, r8g.metal-24xl, r8g.metal-48xl, r8g.xlarge
Generationsc5a.16xlarge, c6a.16xlarge, c7a.16xlarge, c8a.16xlarger6g.16xlarge, r7g.16xlarge, r8g.16xlarge, r9g.16xlarge
Variantsc5ad.16xlarger8a.16xlarge, r8gb.16xlarge, r8gd.16xlarge, r8gn.16xlarge, r8i-flex.16xlarge, r8i.16xlarge, r8ib.16xlarge, r8id.16xlarge, r8idb.16xlarge, r8idn.16xlarge, r8in.16xlarge
SageMakerml.r8g.16xlarge
RDSdb.r8g.16xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r8g.16xlarge
OpenSearchr8g.16xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r8g.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput6300 MBps20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth6300 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput787.5 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance26700 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance26700 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth6300 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput787.5 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance20 Gigabit30 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.52x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5a.16xlarge
r8g.16xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a2.6426
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.50402.6426
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.46403.7702
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.91204.2170
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.94404.2189
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.94404.4179
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.04004.4282
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.04004.4282
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)3.07204.5179
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)3.10404.5184
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)3.20004.5184
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)3.29604.5184
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)3.77604.5478
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.62403.7702
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a4.5478
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a4.5478
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a4.5478
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a4.5478
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a4.5478
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a4.6406
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a4.7443
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a4.9984
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a5.0029
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a5.0266
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.68803.8656
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a5.9994
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.75203.8656
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.75203.9584
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.78404.0093
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.81604.1293
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.91204.1293
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.91204.1888
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.4640n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.46403.7702
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