c5ad.2xlarge vs r4.2xlarge

Instance Typec5ad.2xlarger4.2xlarge
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
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
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
4 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed3.3 GHz2.3 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.xlarger4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarge
Generationsr3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
Variantsc5.2xlarge, c5a.2xlarge, c5d.2xlarge, c5n.2xlarge
RDSdb.r4.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.2xlarge
OpenSearchr4.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance Storage1 x 300 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 3170 MBps1600 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth800 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput100 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3200 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13300 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.54x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5ad.2xlarge
r4.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.39200.5480
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.6402
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.40000.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.40400.5928
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.41200.5928
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.43200.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.45200.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.46800.6384
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.53600.6384
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.6400
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.34400.5320
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.34400.5320
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.34400.5320
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