c5ad.12xlarge vs c8i.12xlarge

Instance Typec5ad.12xlargec8i.12xlarge
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
d – Instance store volume
12xlarge – 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
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs4848
Memory96 GiB96 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed3.3 GHz3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc5ad.12xlarge, c5ad.16xlarge, c5ad.24xlarge, c5ad.2xlarge, c5ad.4xlarge, c5ad.8xlarge, c5ad.large, c5ad.xlargec8i.12xlarge, c8i.16xlarge, c8i.24xlarge, c8i.2xlarge, c8i.32xlarge, c8i.48xlarge, c8i.4xlarge, c8i.8xlarge, c8i.96xlarge, c8i.large, c8i.metal-48xl, c8i.metal-96xl, c8i.xlarge
Generationsc6i.12xlarge, c7i.12xlarge, c8i.12xlarge
Variantsc5.12xlarge, c5a.12xlarge, c5d.12xlargec8a.12xlarge, c8g.12xlarge, c8gb.12xlarge, c8gd.12xlarge, c8gn.12xlarge, c8i-flex.12xlarge, c8ib.12xlarge, c8id.12xlarge, c8in.12xlarge, c8ine.12xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance Storage2 x 900 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput4750 MBps15000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth4750 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput593.75 Mbps1875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps1875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12 Gigabit22500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces812
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.05x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5ad.12xlarge
c8i.12xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a2.2490
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a2.2042
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a2.2490
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.35202.2490
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.5932
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.6724
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.6724
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.8046
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.8313
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.9371
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a3.0166
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a3.0840
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a3.4663
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.40002.2490
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.42402.2490
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.47202.4079
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.59202.4130
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.71202.4132
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.80802.4607
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.21602.5402
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.5666
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.0640n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.0640n/a
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.0640n/a
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