c6gd.16xlarge vs m4.16xlarge
| c6gd.16xlarge | m4.16xlarge |
| Compute optimized | General purpose |
| 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 g – AWS Graviton processor d – Instance store volume 16xlarge – Size | Obsolete. Not recommended for use Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 4 – Generation 16xlarge – Size |
| 64 | 64 |
| 128 GiB | 256 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton2 Processor | Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) |
| 2.5 GHz | 2.3 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| c6gd.12xlarge, c6gd.16xlarge, c6gd.2xlarge, c6gd.4xlarge, c6gd.8xlarge, c6gd.large, c6gd.medium, c6gd.metal, c6gd.xlarge | m4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.large, m4.xlarge |
| c6gd.16xlarge, c7gd.16xlarge, c8gd.16xlarge, c9gd.16xlarge | m4.16xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m6i.16xlarge, m7i.16xlarge, m8i.16xlarge |
| c6a.16xlarge, c6g.16xlarge, c6gn.16xlarge, c6i.16xlarge, c6id.16xlarge, c6in.16xlarge | |
| ml.c6gd.16xlarge | ml.m4.16xlarge |
| db.c6gd.16xlarge | db.m4.16xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| 188 | |
| 2 x 1900 NVMe SSD | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | unsupported |
| 18000 MBps | 10000 MBps |
| 19000 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 2375 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| 80000 IOPS | 65000 IOPS |
| 80000 IOPS | 65000 IOPS |
| 19000 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 2375 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| 25 Gigabit | 20 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 15 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 50 | 30 |
| 50 | 30 |
| yes | yes |
| required | supported |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.32x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c6gd.16xlarge | m4.16xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 1.5680 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 2.4576 | 3.3600 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 2.9440 | 4.0320 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 2.9440 | 4.1280 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 2.9696 | 4.1280 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 2.9696 | 5.0880 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 3.0720 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 3.1328 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 3.1360 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 3.1360 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 3.2320 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 3.3280 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 2.6624 | 3.5520 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 3.8080 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 2.7136 | 3.5520 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 2.7904 | 3.7120 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 2.7904 | 3.7440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 2.8160 | 3.8400 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 2.8480 | 3.9360 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 2.8800 | 4.0000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 2.8800 | 4.0000 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 2.4576 | 3.2000 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 2.4576 | 3.2000 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 3.2000 |
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