c7a.8xlarge vs m5d.8xlarge

Instance Typec7a.8xlargem5d.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
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
8xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory64 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R14 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed3.7 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc7a.12xlarge, c7a.16xlarge, c7a.24xlarge, c7a.2xlarge, c7a.32xlarge, c7a.48xlarge, c7a.4xlarge, c7a.8xlarge, c7a.large, c7a.medium, c7a.metal-48xl, c7a.xlargem5d.12xlarge, m5d.16xlarge, m5d.24xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5d.4xlarge, m5d.8xlarge, m5d.large, m5d.metal, m5d.xlarge
Generationsc5a.8xlarge, c6a.8xlarge, c7a.8xlarge, c8a.8xlargem5d.8xlarge, m6id.8xlarge, m8id.8xlarge
Variantsc7g.8xlarge, c7gd.8xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c7i-flex.8xlarge, c7i.8xlargem5.8xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5ad.8xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge, m5n.8xlarge
SageMakerml.m5d.8xlarge
RDSdb.m5d.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units128
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 600 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 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 Diff1.00x1.19x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
c7a.8xlarge
m5d.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.75811.9200
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.1120
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.1170
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.1280
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.2180
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.2180
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.2240
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.2560
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.2560
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.2720
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.76161.9520
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a2.2720
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a2.2880
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a2.2880
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a2.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a2.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a2.3940
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a2.4000
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a2.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a2.8800
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.76191.9520
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.87412.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.89342.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.95142.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.04782.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.06722.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.1120
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.64221.8080
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.64221.8080
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.64221.8080
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