c5ad.4xlarge vs r6g.4xlarge

Instance Typec5ad.4xlarger6g.4xlarge
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
4xlarge – Size
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
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed3.3 GHz2.5 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.xlarger6g.12xlarge, r6g.16xlarge, r6g.2xlarge, r6g.4xlarge, r6g.8xlarge, r6g.large, r6g.medium, r6g.metal, r6g.xlarge
Generationsr6g.4xlarge, r7g.4xlarge, r8g.4xlarge
Variantsc5.4xlarge, c5a.4xlarge, c5d.4xlarge, c5n.4xlarger6a.4xlarge, r6gd.4xlarge, r6i.4xlarge, r6id.4xlarge, r6idn.4xlarge, r6in.4xlarge
SageMakerml.r6g.4xlarge
RDSdb.r6g.4xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r6g.4xlarge
OpenSearchr6g.4xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r6g.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance Storage2 x 300 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3170 MBps4500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1580 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput197.5 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6600 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13300 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.12x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5ad.4xlarge
r6g.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.5200
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a0.5200
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.78400.8064
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.9024
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.9024
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.9440
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.9472
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.9472
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.9475
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.9664
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.9664
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.9664
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.80000.8064
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.9664
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.9728
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.9728
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.9728
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.9728
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.9728
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.9760
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.9926
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.9926
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a1.0147
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.80800.8269
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a1.0701
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a1.0720
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a1.0752
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a1.2864
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.82400.8269
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.86400.8467
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.90400.8560
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.93600.8755
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.07200.8832
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.8832
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.6880n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.68800.8064
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.6880n/a
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