c5a.8xlarge vs c7a.8xlarge

Instance Typec5a.8xlargec7a.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
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory64 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32AMD EPYC 9R14 Processor
Clock Speed3.3 GHz3.7 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.xlargec7a.12xlarge, c7a.16xlarge, c7a.24xlarge, c7a.2xlarge, c7a.32xlarge, c7a.48xlarge, c7a.4xlarge, c7a.8xlarge, c7a.large, c7a.medium, c7a.metal-48xl, c7a.xlarge
Generationsc5a.8xlarge, c6a.8xlarge, c7a.8xlarge, c8a.8xlargec5a.8xlarge, c6a.8xlarge, c7a.8xlarge, c8a.8xlarge
Variantsc5ad.8xlargec7g.8xlarge, c7gd.8xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c7i-flex.8xlarge, c7i.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 Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.28x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5a.8xlarge
c7a.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.7520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.23201.7581
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.4560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.4720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.4720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.5200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.5200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.5360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)1.5520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)1.6000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)1.6480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)1.8880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.31201.7616
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.34401.7619
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.37601.8741
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.37601.8934
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.39201.9514
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.40802.0478
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.45602.0672
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.4560n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.23201.6422
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.23201.6422
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.6422
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