c5a.4xlarge vs r7gd.4xlarge

Instance Typec5a.4xlarger7gd.4xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedMemory 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 databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32AWS Graviton3 Processor
Clock Speed3.3 GHz2.6 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc5a.12xlarge, c5a.16xlarge, c5a.24xlarge, c5a.2xlarge, c5a.4xlarge, c5a.8xlarge, c5a.large, c5a.xlarger7gd.12xlarge, r7gd.16xlarge, r7gd.2xlarge, r7gd.4xlarge, r7gd.8xlarge, r7gd.large, r7gd.medium, r7gd.metal, r7gd.xlarge
Generationsc5a.4xlarge, c6a.4xlarge, c7a.4xlarge, c8a.4xlarger6gd.4xlarge, r7gd.4xlarge, r8gd.4xlarge
Variantsc5.4xlarge, c5ad.4xlarge, c5d.4xlarge, c5n.4xlarger7a.4xlarge, r7g.4xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r7iz.4xlarge
SageMakerml.r7gd.4xlarge
OpenSearchr7gd.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 950 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3170 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1580 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput197.5 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6600 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13300 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 15 Gigabit
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 Diff1.00x1.73x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5a.4xlarge
r7gd.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.7040
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.37600.7040
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.61601.0886
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.72801.2247
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.73601.2528
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.73601.2701
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.76001.2701
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.76001.2776
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.76801.2781
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.77601.3078
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.80001.3079
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.82401.3083
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.94401.3083
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.65601.0886
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a1.3154
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a1.3154
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a1.3154
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a1.3154
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a1.3154
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a1.3230
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a1.3306
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a1.4364
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a1.7237
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.67201.1181
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.68801.1181
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.68801.1430
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.69601.1491
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.70401.1838
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.72801.2096
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.72801.2096
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.6160n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.61601.0886
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