db.r5.16xlargevsdb.r6i.16xlarge

db.r5.16xlarge and db.r6i.16xlarge cost the same on demand in US East (N. Virginia), $11.136 per hour.

At a glancedb.r5.16xlargedb.r6i.16xlarge
On-demand$11.136/hr$11.136/hr
Size64 vCPUs, 512 GiB64 vCPUs, 512 GiB
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175Intel Xeon Family
Architecturex86_64x86_64

Prices in US East (N. Virginia)

“Off” is the discount against each type’s own on-demand price. Standard storage, USD per hour.

Optiondb.r5.16xlargedb.r6i.16xlargedb.r6i.16xlarge vs db.r5.16xlarge
On-demandPay by the hour$11.136$11.136Same

Key differences

The biggest lead each one has.

Where db.r5.16xlarge leads

No clear lead on the measures we compare.

Where db.r6i.16xlarge leads
Network baseline25 Gbps vs 20 Gbps
25% higher
Sustained clock3.5 GHz vs 3.1 GHz
13% higher

Specs

9 of 20 specs differ. Those are in bold.

Compute3 of 9 differdb.r5.16xlargedb.r6i.16xlarge
vCPUs6464
Physical cores3232
Threads per core22
Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175Intel Xeon Family
CPU makerIntelIntel
Clock speedUp to 3.1 GHz–
Sustained clock3.1 GHz3.5 GHz
BurstableNoNo
MemoryAll 1 matchdb.r5.16xlargedb.r6i.16xlarge
Memory (GiB)512512
Networking3 of 3 differdb.r5.16xlargedb.r6i.16xlarge
Network20 Gigabit25 Gigabit
Network baseline20 Gbps25 Gbps
Network peak20 Gbps25 Gbps
Storage1 of 2 differdb.r5.16xlargedb.r6i.16xlarge
StorageEBS OnlyEBS Only
EBS throughput10000 Mbps–
Instance details1 of 4 differdb.r5.16xlargedb.r6i.16xlarge
Familyr5r6i
CategoryMemory optimizedMemory optimized
Current generationYesYes
Normalization factor128128
Other1 of 1 differdb.r5.16xlargedb.r6i.16xlarge
Hardware Basisr5.16xlarger6i.16xlarge

On-demand prices by region

Cheapest for db.r5.16xlarge first. Standard storage, USD per hour.

Regiondb.r5.16xlargedb.r6i.16xlargeDifference
US East (N. Virginia)Used in summaryus-east-1$11.136$11.136Same
US East (Ohio)us-east-2$11.136$11.136Same
US West (Oregon)us-west-2$11.136$11.136Same
EU (Stockholm)eu-north-1$11.52$11.52Same
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)ap-south-2$12.25$12.25Same
Europe (Spain)eu-south-2$12.25$12.25Same
Canada (Central)ca-central-1$12.288$12.288Same
Canada West (Calgary)ca-west-1$12.288$12.288Same
EU (Ireland)eu-west-1$12.288$12.288Same
US West (N. California)us-west-1$12.288$12.288Same
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)ap-south-1$12.672$12.672Same
EU (Paris)eu-west-3$12.90$12.90Same
EU (London)eu-west-2$13.056$13.056Same
Asia Pacific (Melbourne)ap-southeast-4$13.44$13.44Same
Asia Pacific (Osaka)ap-northeast-3$13.44$13.44Same
Asia Pacific (Seoul)ap-northeast-2$13.44$13.44Same
Asia Pacific (Singapore)ap-southeast-1$13.44$13.44Same
Asia Pacific (Sydney)ap-southeast-2$13.44$13.44Same
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)ap-northeast-1$13.44$13.44Same
AWS GovCloud (US-East)us-gov-east-1$13.44$13.44Same
AWS GovCloud (US-West)us-gov-west-1$13.44$13.44Same
EU (Frankfurt)eu-central-1$13.44$13.44Same
Asia Pacific (Jakarta)ap-southeast-3$13.475$13.475Same
Middle East (Bahrain)me-south-1$13.517$13.517Same
Europe (Zurich)eu-central-2$14.588$14.588Same
Africa (Cape Town)af-south-1$14.623$14.623Same
Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)ap-east-1$14.784$14.784Same
South America (Sao Paulo)sa-east-1$23.04$23.04Same

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Amazon Neptune Standard storage prices in USD. Monthly figures use 730 hours. Prices last updated 12 Nov 2026.