m5.12xlarge vs i3en.12xlarge

Instance Typem5.12xlargei3en.12xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
12xlarge – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
3 – Generation
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs4848
Memory192 GiB384 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed3.1 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5.12xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m5.24xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m5.4xlarge, m5.8xlarge, m5.large, m5.metal, m5.xlargei3en.12xlarge, i3en.24xlarge, i3en.2xlarge, i3en.3xlarge, i3en.6xlarge, i3en.large, i3en.metal, i3en.xlarge
Generationsm5.12xlarge, m6i.12xlarge, m7i.12xlarge, m8i.12xlarge
Variantsm5a.12xlarge, m5ad.12xlarge, m5d.12xlarge, m5dn.12xlarge, m5n.12xlarge, m5zn.12xlarge
SageMakerml.m5.12xlargeml.i3en.12xlarge
RDSdb.m5.12xlarge
OpenSearchm5.12xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m5.12xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units168168
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 7500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth9500 Mbps9500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1187.5 Mbps1187.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth9500 Mbps9500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1187.5 Mbps1187.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit50 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.29x

Regional Prices

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m5.12xlarge
i3en.12xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.42405.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.68806.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.68806.1680
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.69606.1680
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.76006.2930
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.82506.3000
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.82506.3120
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.83206.3120
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.88006.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.88006.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.88006.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.42405.6950
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)2.88006.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)2.90406.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)2.90406.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)2.97606.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)2.97606.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.03606.5520
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.04806.5520
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)3.16806.5710
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)3.67206.6000
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a6.8290
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.44805.7460
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a7.1280
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a7.1280
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a7.1600
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a8.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.56805.8540
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.56805.8540
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.56806.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.56806.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.66406.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.68806.0000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.30405.4240
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.30405.4240
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.30405.4240
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