c6i.16xlarge
Amazon EC2 C6i instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to C5 instances for a wide variety of workloads.
The c6i.16xlarge is a aws ec2 instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for ec2 workloads.
Last updated at Sun May 17 2026
Instance Info
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 64 |
| Memory | 128 GiB |
| Physical Processor | Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake) |
| Clock Speed | 3.5 GHz |
| CPU Architecture | 64-bit |
| GPU Memory | NA |
| Network | Value |
| Network Performance | 25000 Megabit |
| Enhanced Networking | Yes |
| Storage | Value |
| Storage | EBS only |
| EBS Throughput | 20000 Mbps |
| Amazon | Value |
| Current Generation | Yes |
| Instance Type | c6i.16xlarge |
| Family | Compute optimized |
Family Instances
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| c6i.large | 2 | 4 |
| c6i.xlarge | 4 | 8 |
| c6i.2xlarge | 8 | 16 |
| c6i.4xlarge | 16 | 32 |
| c6i.8xlarge | 32 | 64 |
| c6i.12xlarge | 48 | 96 |
| c6i.16xlarge | 64 | 128 |
| c6i.24xlarge | 96 | 192 |
| c6i.32xlarge | 128 | 256 |
Related Instances
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| m8gb.8xlarge | 32 | 128 GiB |
| m8a.8xlarge | 32 | 128 GiB |
| m8gd.8xlarge | 32 | 128 GiB |
| hpc7g.16xlarge | 64 | 128 GiB |
| g5g.16xlarge | 64 | 128 GiB |
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