c5a.2xlarge vs m8idn.2xlarge

Instance Typec5a.2xlargem8idn.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
8 – 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 Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed3.3 GHz3.9 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.xlargem8idn.12xlarge, m8idn.16xlarge, m8idn.24xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge, m8idn.32xlarge, m8idn.48xlarge, m8idn.4xlarge, m8idn.8xlarge, m8idn.96xlarge, m8idn.large, m8idn.metal-48xl, m8idn.metal-96xl, m8idn.xlarge
Generationsc5a.2xlarge, c6a.2xlarge, c7a.2xlarge, c8a.2xlargem6idn.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge
Variantsc5.2xlarge, c5ad.2xlarge, c5d.2xlarge, c5n.2xlargem8a.2xlarge, m8g.2xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8i-flex.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8ib.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge, m8idb.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge, m8ine.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 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth800 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput100 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3200 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13300 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 40 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.33x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5a.2xlarge
m8idn.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.30800.8361
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)0.32800.8536
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.33600.9828
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.3440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.3440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.3480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.3520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.3640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.3640n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.30800.7638
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.30800.7638
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.7638
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