m5.metal vs r5.metal

Instance Typem5.metalr5.metal
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
metal – Bare metal
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
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs9696
Memory384 GiB768 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.metal, m6i.metalr5.metal, r6i.metal
Variantsm5d.metal, m5dn.metal, m5n.metal, m5zn.metalr5b.metal, r5d.metal, r5dn.metal, r5n.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units345347
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput12000 MBps19000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth19000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2375 Mbps2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth19000 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2375 Mbps2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit25 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

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m5.metal
r5.metal
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.84806.2400
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.37607.1040
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)5.37607.1040
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)5.39307.1060
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)5.52007.2480
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)5.65007.2480
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)5.65007.2480
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)5.66407.2480
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)5.76007.2960
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)5.76007.2960
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)5.76007.2960
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)4.84806.2400
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)5.76007.2960
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)5.80807.2960
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)5.80807.2960
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)5.95207.4450
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)5.95207.4450
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)6.07208.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)6.09608.0260
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)6.33608.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)7.34409.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)4.89606.4320
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)5.13606.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)5.13606.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)5.13606.7200
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)5.13606.7680
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)5.32806.7680
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)5.37607.1040
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.60806.0480
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.60806.0480
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.60806.0480
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