m5a.12xlarge vs m5.12xlarge

Instance Typem5a.12xlargem5.12xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

mMulti purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
12xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

mMulti purpose
5 – Generation
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs4848
Memory192 GiB192 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed2.5 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5a.12xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5a.24xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5a.4xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5a.large, m5a.xlargem5.12xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m5.24xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m5.4xlarge, m5.8xlarge, m5.large, m5.metal, m5.xlarge
Generationsm5a.12xlarge, m6a.12xlarge, m7a.12xlarge, m8a.12xlargem5.12xlarge, m6i.12xlarge, m7i.12xlarge, m8i.12xlarge
Variantsm5.12xlarge, m5ad.12xlarge, m5d.12xlarge, m5dn.12xlarge, m5n.12xlarge, m5zn.12xlargem5a.12xlarge, m5ad.12xlarge, m5d.12xlarge, m5dn.12xlarge, m5n.12xlarge, m5zn.12xlarge
SageMakerml.m5.12xlarge
RDSdb.m5.12xlarge
OpenSearchm5.12xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m5.12xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units168
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput5000 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth6780 Mbps9500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput847.5 Mbps1187.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance30000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth6780 Mbps9500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput847.5 Mbps1187.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.15x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
m5a.12xlarge
m5.12xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.3330n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.06402.4240
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.59202.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.59202.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.61602.6960
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.61602.7600
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.68802.8250
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)3.31202.8250
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.8800
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.8800
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.8800
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.30402.4240
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a2.8800
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a2.9040
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a2.9040
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a2.9760
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a2.9760
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a3.0360
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a3.0480
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a3.1680
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a3.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.30402.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.40002.5680
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.42402.5680
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.42402.5680
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.42402.5680
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.49602.6640
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.54402.6880
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.06402.3040
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.06402.3040
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.3040
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