c7a.xlarge vs m5dn.xlarge
| c7a.xlarge | m5dn.xlarge |
| 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 7 – Generation a – AMD processor xlarge – Size | Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 5 – Generation d – Instance store volume n – Network and EBS optimized xlarge – Size |
| 4 | 4 |
| 8 GiB | 16 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC 9R14 Processor | Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake) |
| 3.7 GHz | 3.1 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| c7a.12xlarge, c7a.16xlarge, c7a.24xlarge, c7a.2xlarge, c7a.32xlarge, c7a.48xlarge, c7a.4xlarge, c7a.8xlarge, c7a.large, c7a.medium, c7a.metal-48xl, c7a.xlarge | m5dn.12xlarge, m5dn.16xlarge, m5dn.24xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5dn.4xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge, m5dn.large, m5dn.metal, m5dn.xlarge |
| c5a.xlarge, c6a.xlarge, c7a.xlarge, c8a.xlarge | m5dn.xlarge, m6idn.xlarge, m8idn.xlarge |
| c7g.xlarge, c7gd.xlarge, c7gn.xlarge, c7i-flex.xlarge, c7i.xlarge | m5.xlarge, m5a.xlarge, m5ad.xlarge, m5d.xlarge, m5n.xlarge, m5zn.xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| EBS only | 1 x 150 NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 10000 MBps | up to 3500 MBps |
| 1250 Mbps | 1150 Mbps |
| 156.25 Mbps | 143.75 Mbps |
| 6000 IOPS | 6000 IOPS |
| 40000 IOPS | 18750 IOPS |
| 10000 Mbps | 4750 Mbps |
| 1250 Mbps | 593.75 Mbps |
| Up to 12500 Megabit | Up to 25 Gigabit |
| yes | no |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.39x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c7a.xlarge | m5dn.xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.2198 | 0.3040 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.2202 | 0.3240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2202 | 0.3340 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2343 | 0.3420 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2367 | 0.3420 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2439 | 0.3500 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.2584 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.2053 | 0.2720 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.2053 | 0.2720 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.2053 | 0.2720 |