c3.2xlarge vs r8a.2xlarge

Instance Typec3.2xlarger8a.2xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedMemory optimized
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
High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory15 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz4.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarger8a.12xlarge, r8a.16xlarge, r8a.24xlarge, r8a.2xlarge, r8a.48xlarge, r8a.4xlarge, r8a.8xlarge, r8a.large, r8a.medium, r8a.metal-24xl, r8a.metal-48xl, r8a.xlarge
Generationsc3.2xlarge, c4.2xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c6i.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarger5a.2xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r8a.2xlarge
Variantsr8g.2xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8i-flex.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge, r8id.2xlarge, r8idb.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge, r8in.2xlarge
RDSdb.r8a.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units28
Instance Storage2 x 80 SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance8000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput125 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 15000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1540
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1540
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.40x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.2xlarge
r8a.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)0.4600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.47800.7151
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.47800.7151
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.50400.7709
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.51100.7709
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/a0.6390
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.42000.6390
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.42000.6390
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