c6gd.metal vs m5zn.metal

Instance Typec6gd.metalm5zn.metal
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
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
metal – Bare metal
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
z – High performance
n – Network and EBS optimized
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs6448
Memory128 GiB192 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8252
Clock Speed2.5 GHz4.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc6gd.12xlarge, c6gd.16xlarge, c6gd.2xlarge, c6gd.4xlarge, c6gd.8xlarge, c6gd.large, c6gd.medium, c6gd.metal, c6gd.xlargem5zn.12xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge, m5zn.3xlarge, m5zn.6xlarge, m5zn.large, m5zn.metal, m5zn.xlarge
Generationsc6gd.metal, c7gd.metal
Variantsc6a.metal, c6g.metal, c6gn.metal, c6i.metal, c6id.metal, c6in.metalm5.metal, m5d.metal, m5dn.metal, m5n.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage2 x 1900 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput18000 MBps19000 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 Diff1.00x1.64x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
c6gd.metal
m5zn.metal
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.5680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.45764.4184
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.9440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.9440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.9696n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.9696n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.0720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)3.1328n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)3.1360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)3.1360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)3.2320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)3.3280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.66244.6248
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.8080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.71364.7486
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.79044.8720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.79044.9560
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.81604.9560
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.84805.1204
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.88006.3178
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.8800n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.45763.9641
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.45763.9641
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a3.9641
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