m4.16xlarge vs m5ad.16xlarge

Instance Typem4.16xlargem5ad.16xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
4 – Generation
16xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
d – Instance store volume
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory256 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AMD EPYC 7571
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.large, m4.xlargem5ad.12xlarge, m5ad.16xlarge, m5ad.24xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5ad.4xlarge, m5ad.8xlarge, m5ad.large, m5ad.xlarge
Generationsm4.16xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m6i.16xlarge, m7i.16xlarge, m8i.16xlarge
Variantsm5.16xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5d.16xlarge, m5dn.16xlarge, m5n.16xlarge
SageMakerml.m4.16xlarge
RDSdb.m4.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units188
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 600 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps9500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps1187.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance65000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance65000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps9500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1187.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance20 Gigabit12 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces815
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.01x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m4.16xlarge
m5ad.16xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a2.1470
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.36003.2960
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)4.03204.1600
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)4.12804.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)4.12804.2880
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)5.08805.2800
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.55203.6800
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.55203.6800
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.71203.8400
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.74403.8720
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.84003.9040
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.93604.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)4.00004.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)4.00004.1280
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)3.20003.2960
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.20003.2960
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)3.2000n/a
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