m6i.metal vs r5b.metal

Instance Typem6i.metalr5b.metal
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

mMulti purpose
6 – Generation
i – Intel processor
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.

rRAM / memory optimized
5 – Generation
b – EBS optimized
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs12896
Memory512 GiB768 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed3.5 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm6i.12xlarge, m6i.16xlarge, m6i.24xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m6i.32xlarge, m6i.4xlarge, m6i.8xlarge, m6i.large, m6i.metal, m6i.xlarger5b.12xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5b.24xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5b.4xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5b.large, r5b.metal, r5b.xlarge
Variantsm6a.metal, m6g.metal, m6gd.metal, m6id.metal, m6idn.metal, m6in.metalr5.metal, r5d.metal, r5dn.metal, r5n.metal
RDSdb.m6i.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput40000 MBps61440 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth40000 Mbps60000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput5000 Mbps7500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance160000 IOPS260000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance160000 IOPS260000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth40000 Mbps60000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput5000 Mbps7500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance50000 Megabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesno
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.14x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
m6i.metal
r5b.metal
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)6.45127.5811
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)7.10408.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)7.168011.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)7.1680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)7.1680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)7.1904n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)7.3600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)7.5328n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)7.5520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)7.6800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)7.6800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)6.46407.8240
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)7.6800n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)7.7440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)7.7440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)7.9360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)7.9360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)8.0960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)8.1280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)8.4480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)8.4480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)9.7920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)6.46408.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)6.52808.4000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)6.52808.4000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)6.52808.5440
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)6.84808.5440
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)6.84808.5440
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)6.84808.6880
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)6.14407.1520
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)6.14407.1520
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)6.14407.1520
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