m6g.metal vs c5n.metal

Instance Typem6g.metalc5n.metal
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
metal – Bare metal
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
5 – Generation
n – Network and EBS optimized
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs6472
Memory256 GiB192 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8124M
Clock Speed2.5 GHz3.4 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm6g.12xlarge, m6g.16xlarge, m6g.2xlarge, m6g.4xlarge, m6g.8xlarge, m6g.large, m6g.medium, m6g.metal, m6g.xlargec5n.18xlarge, c5n.2xlarge, c5n.4xlarge, c5n.9xlarge, c5n.large, c5n.metal, c5n.xlarge
Generationsm6g.metal, m7g.metalc5n.metal, c6in.metal
Variantsm6a.metal, m6gd.metal, m6i.metal, m6id.metal, m6idn.metal, m6in.metalc5.metal, c5d.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput18000 MBps14000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth19000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2375 Mbps2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth19000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2375 Mbps2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.60x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m6g.metal
c5n.metal
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)1.6192n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.61923.8880
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.46403.8880
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.75204.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.84164.6440
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.85124.6800
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.86724.6800
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.86724.8240
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.88004.8600
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.88964.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.94404.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)3.00805.0760
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)3.00805.1480
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.46404.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.02725.2270
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.07205.9760
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.0720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.0720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.0720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.0976n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.0976n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)3.1680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)3.1744n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)3.2256n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.58754.2480
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)3.2384n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)3.2512n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)3.3920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)3.9168n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.61124.3920
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.61124.3920
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.62404.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.73924.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.73924.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.75204.6080
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a3.8880
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.46403.8880
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