m5.metal vs x2idn.metal

Instance Typem5.metalx2idn.metal
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

mMulti purpose
5 – Generation
metal – Bare metal
In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
2 – Generation
i – Intel processor
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs96128
Memory384 GiB2048 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz3.5 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.xlargex2idn.16xlarge, x2idn.24xlarge, x2idn.32xlarge, x2idn.metal
Generationsm5.metal, m6i.metal
Variantsm5d.metal, m5dn.metal, m5n.metal, m5zn.metalx2gd.metal, x2iedn.metal, x2iezn.metal
RDSdb.x2idn.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units345
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput12000 MBps81920 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth19000 Mbps80000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2375 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS260000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS260000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth19000 Mbps80000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2375 Mbps10000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.12x

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m5.metal
x2idn.metal
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.848013.7620
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.376016.4080
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)5.376016.8010
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)5.393016.8060
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HiddenHidden (hidden-15)5.650017.3400
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)5.664017.4069
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)5.760017.4069
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)5.760018.6740
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)5.760019.0480
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)4.848013.7620
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)5.760019.3410
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)5.808019.3410
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HiddenHidden (hidden-23)5.952019.3410
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)5.952019.3410
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)6.072019.3410
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)6.096019.3420
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)6.336020.5414
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)7.344026.0100
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HiddenHidden (hidden-4)5.136015.2110
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)5.136016.0060
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HiddenHidden (hidden-7)5.136016.0060
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)5.328016.0060
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)5.376016.4080
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.608013.3380
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.608013.3380
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.608013.3380
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