c3.8xlarge vs c8gn.8xlarge

Instance Typec3.8xlargec8gn.8xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedCompute 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
8xlarge – 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
n – Network and EBS optimized
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory60 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlargec8gn.12xlarge, c8gn.16xlarge, c8gn.24xlarge, c8gn.2xlarge, c8gn.48xlarge, c8gn.4xlarge, c8gn.8xlarge, c8gn.large, c8gn.medium, c8gn.metal-24xl, c8gn.metal-48xl, c8gn.xlarge
Generationsc3.8xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c6i.8xlarge, c7i.8xlarge, c8i.8xlargec6gn.8xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c8gn.8xlarge
Variantsc8a.8xlarge, c8g.8xlarge, c8gb.8xlarge, c8gd.8xlarge, c8i-flex.8xlarge, c8i.8xlarge, c8ib.8xlarge, c8id.8xlarge, c8in.8xlarge, c8ine.8xlarge
ElastiCachecache.c8gn.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units108
Instance Storage2 x 320 SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth20000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit100 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces810
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.10x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.8xlarge
c8gn.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a1.8944
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a1.8506
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)1.8390n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)n/a1.8506
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.91201.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.1418
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.1594
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.2470
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.2470
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.2646
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.2822
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.2822
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.3542
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.91201.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a2.3699
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a2.3792
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a2.3875
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a2.4746
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a2.4755
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a2.5104
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a2.5491
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a2.9142
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.01601.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.04301.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.06402.0365
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.11702.0717
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.11702.0717
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.60002.1402
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.1418
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.6800n/a
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.6800n/a
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