c5a.2xlarge vs m6idn.2xlarge

Instance Typec5a.2xlargem6idn.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
6 – Generation
i – Intel processor
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed3.3 GHz3.5 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.xlargem6idn.12xlarge, m6idn.16xlarge, m6idn.24xlarge, m6idn.2xlarge, m6idn.32xlarge, m6idn.4xlarge, m6idn.8xlarge, m6idn.large, m6idn.metal, m6idn.xlarge
Generationsc5a.2xlarge, c6a.2xlarge, c7a.2xlarge, c8a.2xlargem6idn.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge
Variantsc5.2xlarge, c5ad.2xlarge, c5d.2xlarge, c5n.2xlargem6a.2xlarge, m6g.2xlarge, m6gd.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m6id.2xlarge, m6in.2xlarge
RDSdb.m6idn.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 474 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3170 MBpsup to 25000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth800 Mbps6250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput100 Mbps781.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3200 IOPS25000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13300 IOPS100000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps3125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 40000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
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 Diff1.00x2.08x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5a.2xlarge
m6idn.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.30800.6640
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.36400.7722
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.36800.7816
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.36800.8003
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.38000.8050
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.38000.8190
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.38400.8262
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.38800.9956
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.4000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.4120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.4720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.32800.6699
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.33600.6786
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.34400.6967
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.34400.6967
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.34800.7114
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.35200.7239
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.36400.7338
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.36400.7582
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.30800.6365
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.30800.6365
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.6365
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