c5a.2xlarge vs m5dn.2xlarge

Instance Typec5a.2xlargem5dn.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
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
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.xlargem5dn.12xlarge, m5dn.16xlarge, m5dn.24xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5dn.4xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge, m5dn.large, m5dn.metal, m5dn.xlarge
Generationsc5a.2xlarge, c6a.2xlarge, c7a.2xlarge, c8a.2xlargem5dn.2xlarge, m6idn.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge
Variantsc5.2xlarge, c5ad.2xlarge, c5d.2xlarge, c5n.2xlargem5.2xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 300 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3170 MBpsup to 3500 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 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.76x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5a.2xlarge
m5dn.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.30800.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.3640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.3680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.3680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.3800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.3800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.3840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.3880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.4000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.4120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.4720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.32800.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.33600.6680
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.34400.6840
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.34400.6840
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.34800.7000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.3520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.3640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.3640n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.30800.5440
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.30800.5440
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.5440
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