m5n.metal vs m6in.metal

Instance Typem5n.metalm6in.metal
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
n – Network and EBS optimized
metal – Bare metal
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
6 – Generation
i – Intel processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs96128
Memory384 GiB512 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5n.12xlarge, m5n.16xlarge, m5n.24xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5n.4xlarge, m5n.8xlarge, m5n.large, m5n.metal, m5n.xlargem6in.12xlarge, m6in.16xlarge, m6in.24xlarge, m6in.2xlarge, m6in.32xlarge, m6in.4xlarge, m6in.8xlarge, m6in.large, m6in.metal, m6in.xlarge
Generationsm5n.metal, m6in.metal
Variantsm5.metal, m5d.metal, m5dn.metal, m5zn.metalm6a.metal, m6g.metal, m6gd.metal, m6i.metal, m6id.metal, m6idn.metal
RDSdb.m6in.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput14000 MBps100000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth19000 Mbps100000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2375 Mbps12500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS400000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS400000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth19000 Mbps100000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2375 Mbps12500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance100 Gigabit200000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces1516
Max Cards12
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesyes
EFA Max Interfaces12
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.59x

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m5n.metal
m6in.metal
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)6.38409.2851
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a10.7827
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a10.9325
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a11.1571
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a11.2320
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a11.4566
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a11.7414
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a14.2016
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)6.76809.3747
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)7.00809.4720
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)7.15209.9315
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)7.15209.9315
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)7.34409.9590
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a10.3027
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a10.3962
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a10.5581
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)5.71208.9107
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)5.71208.9107
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)5.71208.9107
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