c5a.8xlarge vs c6i.8xlarge

Instance Typec5a.8xlargec6i.8xlarge
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
8xlarge – 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
6 – Generation
i – Intel processor
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory64 GiB64 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.xlargec6i.12xlarge, c6i.16xlarge, c6i.24xlarge, c6i.2xlarge, c6i.32xlarge, c6i.4xlarge, c6i.8xlarge, c6i.large, c6i.metal, c6i.xlarge
Generationsc5a.8xlarge, c6a.8xlarge, c7a.8xlarge, c8a.8xlargec6i.8xlarge, c7i.8xlarge, c8i.8xlarge
Variantsc5ad.8xlargec6a.8xlarge, c6g.8xlarge, c6gd.8xlarge, c6gn.8xlarge, c6id.8xlarge, c6in.8xlarge
SageMakerml.c6i.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3170 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3170 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput396.25 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance13300 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13300 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit12500 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 Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.11x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5a.8xlarge
c6i.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a1.3328
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.75201.3600
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)n/a1.3328
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.23201.3600
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.45601.5322
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.47201.5360
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.47201.5408
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.52001.5520
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.52001.5680
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.53601.6160
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)1.55201.6160
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)1.60001.6160
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)1.64801.6320
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)1.88801.6320
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.31201.3600
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a1.6896
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a1.6960
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a1.7120
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a1.7120
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a1.7280
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a1.7760
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a1.8240
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a1.8648
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a2.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.34401.3600
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.37601.3600
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.37601.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.39201.4560
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.40801.4592
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.45601.4880
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.45601.4880
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.2320n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.2320n/a
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