m6a.12xlarge vs c7i.12xlarge

Instance Typem6a.12xlargec7i.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
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.12xlarge, c7i.16xlarge, c7i.24xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c7i.48xlarge, c7i.4xlarge, c7i.8xlarge, c7i.large, c7i.metal-24xl, c7i.metal-48xl, c7i.xlarge
Generationsm5a.12xlarge, m6a.12xlarge, m7a.12xlarge, m8a.12xlargec6i.12xlarge, c7i.12xlarge, c8i.12xlarge
Variantsm6g.12xlarge, m6gd.12xlarge, m6i.12xlarge, m6id.12xlarge, m6idn.12xlarge, m6in.12xlargec7a.12xlarge, c7g.12xlarge, c7gd.12xlarge, c7gn.12xlarge, c7i-flex.12xlarge
SageMakerml.m6a.12xlargeml.c7i.12xlarge
OpenSearchc7i.12xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps15000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth15000 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1875 Mbps1875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance60000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth15000 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1875 Mbps1875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance18750 Megabit18750 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 Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.08x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m6a.12xlarge
c7i.12xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)1.3332n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a2.0993
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.33322.1420
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)n/a2.0993
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.07362.1420
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.59202.3436
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.59202.4132
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.67842.4192
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.30482.4269
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.4444
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.4696
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.4696
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.5452
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.5452
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.5452
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.07362.1420
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a2.5704
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a2.5704
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a2.5740
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a2.6712
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a2.6890
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a2.6964
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a2.6964
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a2.7216
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a2.7972
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a2.7972
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.31122.1420
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a2.8728
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a2.9371
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a3.3012
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.31122.1420
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.39762.2490
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.41922.2932
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.41922.2980
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.41922.2982
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.48402.3436
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.0736n/a
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