c5a.2xlarge vs m5.2xlarge

Instance Typec5a.2xlargem5.2xlarge
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
a – AMD processor
2xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed3.3 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc5a.12xlarge, c5a.16xlarge, c5a.24xlarge, c5a.2xlarge, c5a.4xlarge, c5a.8xlarge, c5a.large, c5a.xlargem5.12xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m5.24xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m5.4xlarge, m5.8xlarge, m5.large, m5.metal, m5.xlarge
Generationsc5a.2xlarge, c6a.2xlarge, c7a.2xlarge, c8a.2xlargem2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge
Variantsc5.2xlarge, c5ad.2xlarge, c5d.2xlarge, c5n.2xlargem5a.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge
SageMakerml.m5.2xlarge
RDSdb.m5.2xlarge
OpenSearchm5.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m5.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units37
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3170 MBpsup to 2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth800 Mbps2300 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput100 Mbps287.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3200 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13300 IOPS18750 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.29x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5a.2xlarge
m5.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.30800.4040
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.36400.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.36800.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.36800.4490
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.38000.4600
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.38000.4710
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.38400.4710
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.38800.4720
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.40000.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.41200.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.47200.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.32800.4040
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.4840
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.4840
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.5060
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.5080
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.5280
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.6120
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.33600.4080
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.34400.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.34400.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.34800.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.35200.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.36400.4440
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.36400.4480
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.30800.3840
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.30800.3840
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.3840
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