m5d.metal vs m6id.metal

Instance Typem5d.metalm6id.metal
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
metal – Bare metal
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
6 – Generation
i – Intel processor
d – Instance store volume
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs96128
Memory384 GiB512 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5d.12xlarge, m5d.16xlarge, m5d.24xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5d.4xlarge, m5d.8xlarge, m5d.large, m5d.metal, m5d.xlargem6id.12xlarge, m6id.16xlarge, m6id.24xlarge, m6id.2xlarge, m6id.32xlarge, m6id.4xlarge, m6id.8xlarge, m6id.large, m6id.metal, m6id.xlarge
Generationsm5d.metal, m6id.metal
Variantsm5.metal, m5dn.metal, m5n.metal, m5zn.metalm6a.metal, m6g.metal, m6gd.metal, m6i.metal, m6idn.metal, m6in.metal
RDSdb.m6id.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units345
Instance Storage4 x 900 NVMe SSD4 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput12000 MBps40000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth19000 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2375 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth19000 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2375 Mbps5000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit50000 Megabit
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 Diff1.00x1.37x

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m5d.metal
m6id.metal
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)5.76007.9731
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)6.33608.8301
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)6.35008.8704
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)6.38408.8909
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)6.52808.9376
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)6.65309.1392
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)6.65309.3408
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)6.67209.4752
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)6.76809.5424
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)6.76809.6128
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)6.81609.8112
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)5.85608.0538
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)6.816010.0198
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)6.864010.0531
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)6.864012.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)7.0080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)7.0080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)7.1810n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)7.2000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)7.4400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)8.6400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)5.85608.0538
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)6.04808.1984
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)6.04808.4672
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)6.04808.4672
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)6.04808.4672
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)6.28808.4672
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)6.33608.8032
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)5.42407.5936
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)5.42407.5936
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)5.42407.5936
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