m6a.12xlarge vs c7i-flex.12xlarge

Instance Typem6a.12xlargec7i-flex.12xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
6 – Generation
a – AMD processor
12xlarge – 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
i – Intel processor
flex – Flex instance
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs4848
Memory192 GiB96 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R13 ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)
Clock Speed3.6 GHz3.2 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm6a.12xlarge, m6a.16xlarge, m6a.24xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m6a.32xlarge, m6a.48xlarge, m6a.4xlarge, m6a.8xlarge, m6a.large, m6a.metal, m6a.xlargec7i-flex.12xlarge, c7i-flex.16xlarge, c7i-flex.2xlarge, c7i-flex.4xlarge, c7i-flex.8xlarge, c7i-flex.large, c7i-flex.xlarge
Generationsm5a.12xlarge, m6a.12xlarge, m7a.12xlarge, m8a.12xlargec7i-flex.12xlarge, c8i-flex.12xlarge
Variantsm6g.12xlarge, m6gd.12xlarge, m6i.12xlarge, m6id.12xlarge, m6idn.12xlarge, m6in.12xlargec7a.12xlarge, c7g.12xlarge, c7gd.12xlarge, c7gn.12xlarge, c7i.12xlarge
SageMakerml.m6a.12xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBpsup to 15000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth15000 Mbps7500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1875 Mbps937.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance60000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth15000 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1875 Mbps1875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance18750 MegabitUp to 18750 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.02x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m6a.12xlarge
c7i-flex.12xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)1.3332n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a1.9943
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.33322.0349
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)n/a1.9943
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.07362.0349
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.59202.2982
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.59202.3054
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.67842.3222
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.30482.3460
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.3466
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.4179
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.4179
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.4180
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.4420
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.4454
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.07362.0349
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a2.5376
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a2.5546
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a2.5616
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a2.5855
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a2.6573
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a2.7290
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a2.7902
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a3.1361
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.31122.0349
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.31122.0350
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.39762.1366
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.41922.1785
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.41922.1828
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.41922.1833
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.48402.2264
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.0736n/a
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