c5ad.4xlarge vs x1e.4xlarge

Instance Typec5ad.4xlargex1e.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
In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
1 – Generation
e – Extra storage or memory
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB488 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32High Frequency Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 (Haswell)
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.xlargex1e.16xlarge, x1e.2xlarge, x1e.32xlarge, x1e.4xlarge, x1e.8xlarge, x1e.xlarge
Variantsc5.4xlarge, c5a.4xlarge, c5d.4xlarge, c5n.4xlarge
RDSdb.x1e.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units47
Instance Storage2 x 300 NVMe SSD1 x 480 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 3170 MBps1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1580 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput197.5 Mbps218.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6600 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13300 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps218.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces84
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x5.26x

Regional Prices

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Geography
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c5ad.4xlarge
x1e.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.78403.4400
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a4.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a4.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a4.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a6.5020
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.80003.6670
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.80804.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.82404.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.86404.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.90404.6680
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.93604.7600
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.07204.8360
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a4.8360
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.68803.3360
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.68803.3360
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.68803.3360
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