c3.8xlarge vs i8g.8xlarge

Instance Typec3.8xlargei8g.8xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedStorage 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
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory60 GiB256 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.xlargei8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge
Generationsc3.8xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c6i.8xlarge, c7i.8xlarge, c8i.8xlargei4g.8xlarge, i8g.8xlarge
OpenSearchi8g.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units108
Instance Storage2 x 320 SSD2 x 3750GB
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces88
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 Diff1.00x1.59x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.8xlarge
i8g.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)1.8390n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.91202.8704
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a3.2256
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a3.2736
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a3.2912
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a3.2912
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a3.2912
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a3.3088
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a3.3088
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a4.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.91203.0256
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.01603.0256
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.04303.0256
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.06403.1152
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.11703.1856
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.11703.1856
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.60003.2208
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a3.2208
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a2.7456
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.68002.7456
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.68002.7456
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