c8i.2xlarge vs r5ad.2xlarge

Instance Typec8i.2xlarger5ad.2xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedMemory optimized
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
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
2xlarge – Size
High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)AMD EPYC 7571
Clock Speed3.9 GHz2.2 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc8i.12xlarge, c8i.16xlarge, c8i.24xlarge, c8i.2xlarge, c8i.32xlarge, c8i.48xlarge, c8i.4xlarge, c8i.8xlarge, c8i.96xlarge, c8i.large, c8i.metal-48xl, c8i.metal-96xl, c8i.xlarger5ad.12xlarge, r5ad.16xlarge, r5ad.24xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5ad.4xlarge, r5ad.8xlarge, r5ad.large, r5ad.xlarge
Generationsc6i.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge
Variantsc8a.2xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c8gb.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c8gn.2xlarge, c8i-flex.2xlarge, c8ib.2xlarge, c8id.2xlarge, c8in.2xlarge, c8ine.2xlarger5.2xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
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 Bandwidth2500 Mbps1580 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps197.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS8333 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps2880 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps360 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 15000 MegabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3015
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.38x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c8i.2xlarge
r5ad.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.3748n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)0.3674n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.37480.3320
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.37480.5240
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.43220.6360
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.44540.6360
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.44540.6360
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.46740.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.4719n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.4895n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.5028n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.5140n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.5777n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.37480.5760
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.37480.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.40130.5920
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.40220.6120
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.40220.6160
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.41010.6320
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.42340.6320
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.42780.6320
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.5240
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a0.5240
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