c3.2xlarge vs m9gd.2xlarge

Instance Typec3.2xlargem9gd.2xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedGeneral purpose
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
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
3 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory15 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)AWS Graviton5 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz3.3 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlargem9gd.12xlarge, m9gd.16xlarge, m9gd.24xlarge, m9gd.2xlarge, m9gd.48xlarge, m9gd.4xlarge, m9gd.8xlarge, m9gd.large, m9gd.medium, m9gd.metal-48xl, m9gd.xlarge
Generationsc3.2xlarge, c4.2xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c6i.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c8i.2xlargem6gd.2xlarge, m7gd.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m9gd.2xlarge
Variantsm9g.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units28
Instance Storage2 x 80 SSD1 x 474 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 12000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps3000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance8000 IOPS48000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1000 Mbps12000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput125 Mbps1500 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 17 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.06x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.2xlarge
m9gd.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)0.4600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.47800.6052
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.4780n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.5040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.5110n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.5160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.5290n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.5290n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.6500n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.5028
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.42000.5028
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.42000.5028
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