c7gd.2xlarge vs r5a.2xlarge
| c7gd.2xlarge | r5a.2xlarge |
| Compute optimized | Memory optimized |
| 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 g – AWS Graviton processor d – Instance store volume 2xlarge – Size | High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps. r – RAM / memory optimized 5 – Generation a – AMD processor 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 16 GiB | 64 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton3 Processor | AMD EPYC 7571 |
| 2.6 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| c7gd.12xlarge, c7gd.16xlarge, c7gd.2xlarge, c7gd.4xlarge, c7gd.8xlarge, c7gd.large, c7gd.medium, c7gd.metal, c7gd.xlarge | r5a.12xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5a.24xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5a.large, r5a.xlarge |
| c6gd.2xlarge, c7gd.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge | r5a.2xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r8a.2xlarge |
| c7a.2xlarge, c7g.2xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c7i-flex.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge | r5.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| 1 x 475 NVMe SSD | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 10000 MBps | up to 2120 MBps |
| 2500 Mbps | 1580 Mbps |
| 312.5 Mbps | 197.5 Mbps |
| 12000 IOPS | 8333 IOPS |
| 40000 IOPS | 16000 IOPS |
| 10000 Mbps | 2880 Mbps |
| 1250 Mbps | 360 Mbps |
| Up to 15 Gigabit | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.24x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c7gd.2xlarge | r5a.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5) | 0.3598 | n/a |
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.2304 | 0.2860 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.3629 | 0.4520 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.4234 | 0.5440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.4347 | 0.5440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.4347 | 0.5440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.4385 | 0.5480 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.4385 | 0.5480 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.4536 | 0.7240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.4611 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.4612 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.4615 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.4763 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.3629 | 0.4960 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.5632 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.3931 | 0.5040 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.4006 | 0.5080 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.4120 | 0.5320 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.4120 | 0.5320 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.4158 | 0.5320 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.4196 | 0.5440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.4234 | 0.5440 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | n/a | 0.4520 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.3629 | 0.4520 |