r5a.16xlarge vs r6gd.16xlarge

Instance Typer5a.16xlarger6gd.16xlarge
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
16xlarge – 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
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory512 GiB512 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.16xlarge, r6a.16xlarge, r7a.16xlarge, r8a.16xlarger6gd.16xlarge, r7gd.16xlarge, r8gd.16xlarge
Variantsr5.16xlarge, r5ad.16xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5d.16xlarge, r5dn.16xlarge, r5n.16xlarger6a.16xlarge, r6g.16xlarge, r6i.16xlarge, r6id.16xlarge, r6idn.16xlarge, r6in.16xlarge
SageMakerml.r6gd.16xlarge
RDSdb.r6gd.16xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r6gd.16xlarge
OpenSearchr6gd.16xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r6gd.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps18000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth9500 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1187.5 Mbps2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth9500 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1187.5 Mbps2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12 Gigabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
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.16xlarge
r6gd.16xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)2.28802.3917
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.61603.6864
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)4.35204.4288
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)4.35204.4288
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)4.35204.4288
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)4.38404.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)4.38404.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)5.79204.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a4.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a4.4544
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a4.8576
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a4.8640
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.96803.8912
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a5.8368
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)4.03204.0448
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)4.06404.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)4.25604.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)4.25604.1600
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)4.25604.3264
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)4.35204.3264
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)4.35204.4160
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)3.61603.6864
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.61603.6864
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