c5a.4xlarge vs c7i-flex.4xlarge

Instance Typec5a.4xlargec7i-flex.4xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedCompute 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
4xlarge – Size
High-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
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
flex – Flex instance
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)
Clock Speed3.3 GHz3.2 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.xlargec7i-flex.12xlarge, c7i-flex.16xlarge, c7i-flex.2xlarge, c7i-flex.4xlarge, c7i-flex.8xlarge, c7i-flex.large, c7i-flex.xlarge
Generationsc5a.4xlarge, c6a.4xlarge, c7a.4xlarge, c8a.4xlargec7i-flex.4xlarge, c8i-flex.4xlarge
Variantsc5.4xlarge, c5ad.4xlarge, c5d.4xlarge, c5n.4xlargec7a.4xlarge, c7g.4xlarge, c7gd.4xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3170 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1580 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput197.5 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6600 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 12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.10x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5a.4xlarge
c7i-flex.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.6648
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.37600.6783
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)n/a0.6648
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.61600.6783
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.72800.7661
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.73600.7685
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.73600.7741
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.76000.7820
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.76000.7822
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.76800.8060
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.77600.8060
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.80000.8060
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.82400.8140
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.94400.8151
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.65600.6783
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.8459
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.8515
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.8539
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.8618
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.8858
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.9097
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.9301
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a1.0454
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.67200.6783
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.68800.6783
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.68800.7122
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.69600.7262
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.70400.7276
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.72800.7278
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.72800.7421
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.6160n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.6160n/a
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