m5a.16xlarge vs c7gn.16xlarge

Instance Typem5a.16xlargec7gn.16xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
16xlarge – Size
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
n – Network and EBS optimized
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory256 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571AWS Graviton3 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.6 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5a.12xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5a.24xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5a.4xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5a.large, m5a.xlargec7gn.12xlarge, c7gn.16xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c7gn.large, c7gn.medium, c7gn.metal, c7gn.xlarge
Generationsm5a.16xlarge, m6a.16xlarge, m7a.16xlarge, m8a.16xlargec6gn.16xlarge, c7gn.16xlarge, c8gn.16xlarge
Variantsm5.16xlarge, m5ad.16xlarge, m5d.16xlarge, m5dn.16xlarge, m5n.16xlargec7a.16xlarge, c7g.16xlarge, c7gd.16xlarge, c7i-flex.16xlarge, c7i.16xlarge
ElastiCachecache.c7gn.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps40000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth9500 Mbps33333 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1187.5 Mbps4166.625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS133333 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth9500 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1187.5 Mbps5000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12 Gigabit200 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 Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.37x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m5a.16xlarge
c7gn.16xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.7780n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.75204.5120
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.4560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.4560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.4880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.4880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.5840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)4.4160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.07204.7360
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.07205.0368
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.2000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.2320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.2320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.2320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.3280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.3920n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.75203.9936
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.75203.9936
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a3.9936
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