c5a.4xlarge vs m8a.4xlarge
| c5a.4xlarge | m8a.4xlarge |
| Compute optimized | General purpose |
| 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 5 – Generation a – AMD processor 4xlarge – Size | Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 8 – Generation a – AMD processor 4xlarge – Size |
| 16 | 16 |
| 32 GiB | 64 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC 7R32 | AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor |
| 3.3 GHz | 4.5 GHz |
| 2 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| c5a.12xlarge, c5a.16xlarge, c5a.24xlarge, c5a.2xlarge, c5a.4xlarge, c5a.8xlarge, c5a.large, c5a.xlarge | m8a.12xlarge, m8a.16xlarge, m8a.24xlarge, m8a.2xlarge, m8a.48xlarge, m8a.4xlarge, m8a.8xlarge, m8a.large, m8a.medium, m8a.metal-24xl, m8a.metal-48xl, m8a.xlarge |
| c5a.4xlarge, c6a.4xlarge, c7a.4xlarge, c8a.4xlarge | m5a.4xlarge, m6a.4xlarge, m7a.4xlarge, m8a.4xlarge |
| c5.4xlarge, c5ad.4xlarge, c5d.4xlarge, c5n.4xlarge | m8g.4xlarge, m8gb.4xlarge, m8gd.4xlarge, m8gn.4xlarge, m8i-flex.4xlarge, m8i.4xlarge, m8ib.4xlarge, m8id.4xlarge, m8idb.4xlarge, m8idn.4xlarge, m8in.4xlarge, m8ine.4xlarge |
| db.m8a.4xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| EBS only | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 3170 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 1580 Mbps | 5000 Mbps |
| 197.5 Mbps | 625 Mbps |
| 6600 IOPS | 20000 IOPS |
| 13300 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 3170 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 396.25 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 15000 Megabit |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 40 |
| 30 | 40 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.54x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c5a.4xlarge | m8a.4xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.3760 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.6160 | 1.0853 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.7280 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.7360 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.7360 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.7600 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.7600 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.7680 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.7760 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.8000 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.8240 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.9440 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.6560 | 1.0853 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.6720 | 1.1664 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.6880 | 1.2273 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.6880 | 1.2578 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.6960 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.7040 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.7280 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.7280 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.6160 | 0.9738 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.6160 | 0.9738 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.9738 |