m4.xlarge vs m5ad.xlarge

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

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

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
d – Instance store volume
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory16 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)AMD EPYC 7571
Clock Speed2.4 GHz2.2 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
Generationsm1.xlarge, m2.xlarge, m3.xlarge, m4.xlarge, m5.xlarge, m6i.xlarge, m7i.xlarge, m8i.xlarge
Variantsm5.xlarge, m5a.xlarge, m5d.xlarge, m5dn.xlarge, m5n.xlarge, m5zn.xlarge
SageMakerml.m4.xlarge
RDSdb.m4.xlarge
OpenSearchm4.xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units13
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 150 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput750 MBpsup to 2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth750 Mbps1085 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput93.75 Mbps135.625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance6000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth750 Mbps2880 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput93.75 Mbps360 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
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.xlarge
m5ad.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a0.1340
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.21000.2060
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.25200.2600
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.25800.2620
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.25800.2680
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.31800.3300
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.22200.2300
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.22200.2300
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23200.2400
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.23400.2420
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.24000.2440
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.24600.2500
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.25000.2540
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.25000.2580
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.20000.2060
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.20000.2060
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.2000n/a
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