r5a.12xlarge vs r6gd.12xlarge

Instance Typer5a.12xlarger6gd.12xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsHigh-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
a – AMD processor
12xlarge – Size
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
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs4848
Memory384 GiB384 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5a.12xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5a.24xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5a.large, r5a.xlarger6gd.12xlarge, r6gd.16xlarge, r6gd.2xlarge, r6gd.4xlarge, r6gd.8xlarge, r6gd.large, r6gd.medium, r6gd.metal, r6gd.xlarge
Generationsr5a.12xlarge, r6a.12xlarge, r7a.12xlarge, r8a.12xlarger6gd.12xlarge, r7gd.12xlarge, r8gd.12xlarge, r9gd.12xlarge
Variantsr5.12xlarge, r5ad.12xlarge, r5b.12xlarge, r5d.12xlarge, r5dn.12xlarge, r5n.12xlarger6a.12xlarge, r6g.12xlarge, r6i.12xlarge, r6id.12xlarge, r6idn.12xlarge, r6in.12xlarge
SageMakerml.r6gd.12xlarge
RDSdb.r6gd.12xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r6gd.12xlarge
OpenSearchr6gd.12xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r6gd.12xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 1425 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput5000 MBps13500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth6780 Mbps14250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput847.5 Mbps1781.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS50000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance30000 IOPS50000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth6780 Mbps14250 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput847.5 Mbps1781.25 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit20 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.03x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r5a.12xlarge
r6gd.12xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.71601.7938
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.71202.7648
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.26403.3216
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.26403.3216
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.26403.3216
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.28803.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.28803.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)4.34403.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a3.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a3.3408
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a3.6432
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a3.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.97602.9184
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a4.3776
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.02403.0336
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.04803.0720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.19203.0720
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.19203.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.19203.2448
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.26403.2448
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.26403.3120
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)2.71202.7648
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.71202.7648
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