c6gn.metal vs m5zn.metal

Instance Typec6gn.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
n – Network and EBS optimized
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 Architecturen/ax86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8252
Clock Speed4.5 GHz
Threads Per Core02
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc6gn.12xlarge, c6gn.16xlarge, c6gn.2xlarge, c6gn.4xlarge, c6gn.8xlarge, c6gn.large, c6gn.medium, c6gn.metal, c6gn.xlargem5zn.12xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge, m5zn.3xlarge, m5zn.6xlarge, m5zn.large, m5zn.metal, m5zn.xlarge
Generationsc6gn.metal, c7gn.metal
Variantsc6a.metal, c6g.metal, c6gd.metal, c6i.metal, c6id.metal, c6in.metalm5.metal, m5d.metal, m5dn.metal, m5n.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput38000 MBps19000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance100 Gigabit100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces15
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.50x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c6gn.metal
m5zn.metal
CanadaCanada (Central) (ca-central-1)3.0272n/a
EuropeEurope (Paris) (eu-west-3)3.2800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a4.4184
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a4.6248
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a4.7486
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a4.8720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a4.9560
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a4.9560
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a5.1204
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a6.3178
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a3.9641
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a3.9641
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a3.9641
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