c7i-flex.2xlarge vs m5d.2xlarge

Instance Typec7i-flex.2xlargem5d.2xlarge
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
i – Intel processor
flex – Flex instance
2xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed3.2 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc7i-flex.12xlarge, c7i-flex.16xlarge, c7i-flex.2xlarge, c7i-flex.4xlarge, c7i-flex.8xlarge, c7i-flex.large, c7i-flex.xlargem5d.12xlarge, m5d.16xlarge, m5d.24xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5d.4xlarge, m5d.8xlarge, m5d.large, m5d.metal, m5d.xlarge
Generationsc7i-flex.2xlarge, c8i-flex.2xlargem5d.2xlarge, m6id.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge
Variantsc7a.2xlarge, c7g.2xlarge, c7gd.2xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c7i.2xlargem5.2xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge
SageMakerml.m5d.2xlarge
RDSdb.m5d.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units37
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 300 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1250 Mbps2300 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput156.25 Mbps287.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS18750 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12500 MegabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.39x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c7i-flex.2xlarge
m5d.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)0.3324n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.3392n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)0.3324n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.33920.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.38300.5280
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.38420.5290
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.38700.5320
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.39100.5440
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.39110.5540
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.40300.5540
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.40300.5560
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.40300.5640
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.40700.5640
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.40760.5680
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.33920.4880
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.42290.5680
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.42580.5720
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.42690.5720
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.43090.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.44290.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.45480.5980
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.46500.6000
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.52270.6200
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.7200
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.33920.4880
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.33920.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.35610.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.36310.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.36380.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.36390.5240
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.37110.5280
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.4520
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a0.4520
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.4520
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