Amazon EC2 C5 instances deliver cost-effective high performance at a low price per compute ratio for running advanced compute-intensive workloads.
The c5ad.16xlarge is a aws ec2 instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for ec2 workloads.
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 64 |
| Memory | 128 GiB |
| Physical Processor | AMD EPYC 7R32 |
| Clock Speed | 3.3 GHz |
| CPU Architecture | 64-bit |
| GPU Memory | NA |
| Network | Value |
| Network Performance | 20 Gigabit |
| Enhanced Networking | Yes |
| Storage | Value |
| Storage | 2 x 1200 NVMe SSD |
| EBS Throughput | 6300 Mbps |
| Amazon | Value |
| Current Generation | Yes |
| Instance Type | c5ad.16xlarge |
| Family | Compute optimized |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| c5ad.large | 2 | 4 |
| c5ad.xlarge | 4 | 8 |
| c5ad.2xlarge | 8 | 16 |
| c5ad.4xlarge | 16 | 32 |
| c5ad.8xlarge | 32 | 64 |
| c5ad.12xlarge | 48 | 96 |
| c5ad.16xlarge | 64 | 128 |
| c5ad.24xlarge | 96 | 192 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| m8gd.8xlarge | 32 | 128 GiB |
| m8i.8xlarge | 32 | 128 GiB |
| m8a.8xlarge | 32 | 128 GiB |
| hpc7g.16xlarge | 64 | 128 GiB |
| m8g.8xlarge | 32 | 128 GiB |

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