c9g.2xlarge vs r5.2xlarge

Instance Typec9g.2xlarger5.2xlarge
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
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton 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
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton5 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed3.3 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc9g.12xlarge, c9g.16xlarge, c9g.24xlarge, c9g.2xlarge, c9g.48xlarge, c9g.4xlarge, c9g.8xlarge, c9g.large, c9g.medium, c9g.metal-48xl, c9g.xlarger5.12xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r5.24xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r5.large, r5.metal, r5.xlarge
Generationsc6g.2xlarge, c7g.2xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c9g.2xlarger3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
Variantsc9gd.2xlarger5a.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge
SageMakerml.r5.2xlarge
RDSdb.r5.2xlarge, db.r5.2xlarge.tpc1.mem2x, db.r5.2xlarge.tpc2.mem4x, db.r5.2xlarge.tpc2.mem8x
DocumentDBdb.r5.2xlarge
OpenSearchr5.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r5.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units37
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 12000 MBpsup to 4750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3000 Mbps2300 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput375 Mbps287.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance48000 IOPS18750 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth12000 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1500 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 17 GigabitUp 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 Diff1.00x1.65x

Regional Prices

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c9g.2xlarge
r5.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.39540.5200
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.5920
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.5920
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.5920
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.6040
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.6040
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.6040
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.6040
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.5200
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.6200
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.6200
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.6680
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.6690
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.8040
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.5360
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.5520
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.5520
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.5600
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.5640
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.5640
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.5920
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.34660.5040
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.34780.5040
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.34780.5040
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