c5ad.12xlarge vs c9gd.12xlarge

Instance Typec5ad.12xlargec9gd.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
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs4848
Memory96 GiB96 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32AWS Graviton5 Processor
Clock Speed3.3 GHz3.3 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc5ad.12xlarge, c5ad.16xlarge, c5ad.24xlarge, c5ad.2xlarge, c5ad.4xlarge, c5ad.8xlarge, c5ad.large, c5ad.xlargec9gd.12xlarge, c9gd.16xlarge, c9gd.24xlarge, c9gd.2xlarge, c9gd.48xlarge, c9gd.4xlarge, c9gd.8xlarge, c9gd.large, c9gd.medium, c9gd.metal-48xl, c9gd.xlarge
Generationsc6gd.12xlarge, c7gd.12xlarge, c8gd.12xlarge, c9gd.12xlarge
Variantsc5.12xlarge, c5a.12xlarge, c5d.12xlargec9g.12xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance Storage2 x 900 NVMe SSD3 x 950 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput4750 MBps18000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth4750 Mbps18000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput593.75 Mbps2250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS72000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS72000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps18000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps2250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12 Gigabit25 Gigabit
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 Diff1.00x1.08x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5ad.12xlarge
c9gd.12xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.35202.9640
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.4000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.4240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.4720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.5920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.7120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.8080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.2160n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.06402.5632
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.06402.5632
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.06402.5632
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