c6a.8xlarge vs m5.8xlarge

Instance Typec6a.8xlargem5.8xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedGeneral purpose
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
6 – Generation
a – AMD processor
8xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory64 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R13 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed3.6 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc6a.12xlarge, c6a.16xlarge, c6a.24xlarge, c6a.2xlarge, c6a.32xlarge, c6a.48xlarge, c6a.4xlarge, c6a.8xlarge, c6a.large, c6a.metal, c6a.xlargem5.12xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m5.24xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m5.4xlarge, m5.8xlarge, m5.large, m5.metal, m5.xlarge
Generationsc5a.8xlarge, c6a.8xlarge, c7a.8xlarge, c8a.8xlargem5.8xlarge, m6i.8xlarge, m7i.8xlarge, m8i.8xlarge
Variantsc6g.8xlarge, c6gd.8xlarge, c6gn.8xlarge, c6i.8xlarge, c6id.8xlarge, c6in.8xlargem5a.8xlarge, m5ad.8xlarge, m5d.8xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge, m5n.8xlarge
SageMakerml.c6a.8xlargeml.m5.8xlarge
RDSdb.m5.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units128
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput6667 MBps5000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps6800 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps850 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps6800 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps850 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12500 Megabit10 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 Diff1.00x1.36x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c6a.8xlarge
m5.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.7480n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.7480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.22401.6160
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.55521.7920
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.59841.7920
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.88641.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.8400
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.8830
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.8830
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.8880
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a1.9200
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a1.9200
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a1.9200
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.22401.6160
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a1.9200
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a1.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a1.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a1.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a1.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a2.0240
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a2.0320
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a2.1120
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a2.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.31331.6320
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.33921.7120
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.39681.7120
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.41121.7120
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.45441.7120
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.52641.7760
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.54081.7920
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a1.5360
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.22401.5360
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.5360
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