m5.16xlarge vs r5.16xlarge

Instance Typem5.16xlarger5.16xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
16xlarge – 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
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory256 GiB512 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
Generationsm4.16xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m6i.16xlarge, m7i.16xlarge, m8i.16xlarger4.16xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r6i.16xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r8i.16xlarge
Variantsm5a.16xlarge, m5ad.16xlarge, m5d.16xlarge, m5dn.16xlarge, m5n.16xlarger5a.16xlarge, r5ad.16xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5d.16xlarge, r5dn.16xlarge, r5n.16xlarge
SageMakerml.m5.16xlargeml.r5.16xlarge
RDSdb.m5.16xlargedb.r5.16xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r5.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units256256
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps13600 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth13600 Mbps13600 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1700 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance60000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth13600 Mbps13600 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1700 Mbps1700 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance20 Gigabit20 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.29x

Regional Prices

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m5.16xlarge
r5.16xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.23204.1600
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.58404.7360
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.58404.7360
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.59504.7380
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.68004.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.76604.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)3.76604.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)3.77604.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)3.84004.8640
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)3.84004.8640
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)3.84004.8640
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.23204.1600
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.84004.8640
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.87204.8640
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.87204.8640
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.96804.9630
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.96804.9630
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)4.04805.3440
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)4.06405.3500
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)4.22405.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)4.89606.4320
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.26404.2880
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.42404.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.42404.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.42404.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.42404.5120
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.55204.5120
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.58404.7360
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)3.07204.0320
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.07204.0320
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)3.07204.0320
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