c3.2xlarge vs x8g.2xlarge
| c3.2xlarge | x8g.2xlarge |
| Compute optimized | Memory optimized |
| Obsolete. 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 | In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps. x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive 8 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 15 GiB | 128 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge) | AWS Graviton4 Processor |
| 2.8 GHz | 2.8 GHz |
| 2 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| c3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarge | x8g.12xlarge, x8g.16xlarge, x8g.24xlarge, x8g.2xlarge, x8g.48xlarge, x8g.4xlarge, x8g.8xlarge, x8g.large, x8g.medium, x8g.metal-24xl, x8g.metal-48xl, x8g.xlarge |
| c3.2xlarge, c4.2xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c6i.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge | |
| x8i.2xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| 28 | |
| 2 x 80 SSD | EBS only |
| supported | default |
| supported | supported |
| unsupported | required |
| up to 10240 MBps | |
| 1000 Mbps | 2500 Mbps |
| 125 Mbps | 312.5 Mbps |
| 8000 IOPS | 12000 IOPS |
| 8000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 1000 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 125 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| High | Up to 15 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| unsupported | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.77x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c3.2xlarge | x8g.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2) | 0.4600 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.4780 | 0.8898 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4780 | 0.9360 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.5040 | 0.9379 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.5110 | 1.0924 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.5160 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.5290 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.5290 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.6500 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | n/a | 0.7816 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4200 | 0.7816 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.4200 | 0.7816 |