c5ad.8xlarge vs c6id.8xlarge

Instance Typec5ad.8xlargec6id.8xlarge
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
8xlarge – 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
6 – Generation
i – Intel processor
d – Instance store volume
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory64 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed3.3 GHz3.5 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.xlargec6id.12xlarge, c6id.16xlarge, c6id.24xlarge, c6id.2xlarge, c6id.32xlarge, c6id.4xlarge, c6id.8xlarge, c6id.large, c6id.metal, c6id.xlarge
Generationsc6id.8xlarge, c8id.8xlarge
Variantsc5a.8xlargec6a.8xlarge, c6g.8xlarge, c6gd.8xlarge, c6gn.8xlarge, c6i.8xlarge, c6in.8xlarge
SageMakerml.c6id.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance Storage2 x 600 NVMe SSD1 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3170 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3170 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput396.25 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance13300 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13300 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.13x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5ad.8xlarge
c6id.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a1.5994
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)n/a1.5994
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.56801.6128
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.8816
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.9152
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.9227
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.9320
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.9320
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.9488
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.0496
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.1168
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.2227
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.5032
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.60001.6128
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.61601.6934
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.64801.7808
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.72801.7808
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.80801.8312
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.87201.8446
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.14401.8480
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.8648
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.3760n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.37601.6128
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.3760n/a
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