m5.12xlarge vs r5.12xlarge

Instance Typem5.12xlarger5.12xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
12xlarge – Size
High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
5 – Generation
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.xlarger5.12xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r5.24xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r5.large, r5.metal, r5.xlarge
Generationsm5.12xlarge, m6i.12xlarge, m7i.12xlarge, m8i.12xlarger5.12xlarge, r6i.12xlarge, r7i.12xlarge, r8i.12xlarge
Variantsm5a.12xlarge, m5ad.12xlarge, m5d.12xlarge, m5dn.12xlarge, m5n.12xlarge, m5zn.12xlarger5a.12xlarge, r5ad.12xlarge, r5b.12xlarge, r5d.12xlarge, r5dn.12xlarge, r5n.12xlarge
SageMakerml.m5.12xlargeml.r5.12xlarge
RDSdb.m5.12xlargedb.r5.12xlarge, db.r5.12xlarge.tpc2.mem2x
DocumentDBdb.r5.12xlarge
OpenSearchm5.12xlarge.searchr5.12xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m5.12xlargecache.r5.12xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units168168
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps9500 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 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 Diff1.00x1.29x

Regional Prices

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m5.12xlarge
r5.12xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.42403.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.68803.5520
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.68803.5520
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.69603.5530
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.76003.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.82503.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.82503.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.83203.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.88003.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.88003.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.88003.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.42403.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)2.88003.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)2.90403.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)2.90403.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)2.97603.7220
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)2.97603.7220
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.03604.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.04804.0130
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)3.16804.0320
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)3.67204.8240
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.44803.2160
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.56803.3120
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.56803.3120
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.56803.3600
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.56803.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.66403.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.68803.5520
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.30403.0240
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.30403.0240
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.30403.0240
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