a1.2xlarge vs c8gb.2xlarge

Instance Typea1.2xlargec8gb.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments.

a – ARM AWS Graviton Processor
1 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

c – Compute optimized
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargec8gb.12xlarge, c8gb.16xlarge, c8gb.24xlarge, c8gb.2xlarge, c8gb.48xlarge, c8gb.4xlarge, c8gb.8xlarge, c8gb.large, c8gb.medium, c8gb.metal-24xl, c8gb.metal-48xl, c8gb.xlarge
Variantsc8a.2xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c8gn.2xlarge, c8i-flex.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge, c8ib.2xlarge, c8id.2xlarge, c8in.2xlarge, c8ine.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 25000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps12500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps1562.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps3125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 33.333 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.09x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.2xlarge
c8gb.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.2040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.2304n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.2328n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.2352n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.2568n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.2664n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.2040n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.20400.4740
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.4740
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