m5a.16xlarge vs im4gn.16xlarge

Instance Typem5a.16xlargeim4gn.16xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
16xlarge – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

im – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to four ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory256 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5a.12xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5a.24xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5a.4xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5a.large, m5a.xlargeim4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge
Generationsm5a.16xlarge, m6a.16xlarge, m7a.16xlarge, m8a.16xlarge
Variantsm5.16xlarge, m5ad.16xlarge, m5d.16xlarge, m5dn.16xlarge, m5n.16xlarge
OpenSearchim4gn.16xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps38000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth9500 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1187.5 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth9500 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1187.5 Mbps5000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12 Gigabit100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.04x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m5a.16xlarge
im4gn.16xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.7780n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.75206.4176
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.45606.9773
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.45606.9773
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.4880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.4880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.5840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)4.4160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.07206.4177
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.07206.4177
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.20006.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.23206.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.23206.7535
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.23206.7535
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.32806.8281
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.39206.9400
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.75205.8207
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.75205.8207
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a5.8207
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