c7i-flex.8xlarge vs m5n.8xlarge

Instance Typec7i-flex.8xlargem5n.8xlarge
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
8xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
n – Network and EBS optimized
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory64 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
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.xlargem5n.12xlarge, m5n.16xlarge, m5n.24xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5n.4xlarge, m5n.8xlarge, m5n.large, m5n.metal, m5n.xlarge
Generationsc7i-flex.8xlarge, c8i-flex.8xlargem5n.8xlarge, m6in.8xlarge, m8in.8xlarge
Variantsc7a.8xlarge, c7g.8xlarge, c7gd.8xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c7i.8xlargem5.8xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5ad.8xlarge, m5d.8xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBps5000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth5000 Mbps6800 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput625 Mbps850 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps6800 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps850 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12500 Megabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.40x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c7i-flex.8xlarge
m5n.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)1.3295n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.3566n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)1.3295n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.35662.1280
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.5322n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.5370n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.5481n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.5640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.5644n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.6120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)1.6120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)1.6120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)1.6280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)1.6302n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.35662.2560
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)1.6918n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)1.7030n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)1.7077n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)1.7237n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)1.7716n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)1.8194n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)1.8602n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)2.0908n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.35662.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.35662.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.42442.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.45242.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.4552n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.4556n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.4843n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a1.9040
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a1.9040
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.9040
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