m8g.8xlarge vs c3.8xlarge

Instance Typem8g.8xlargec3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
8xlarge – Size
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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB60 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8g.12xlarge, m8g.16xlarge, m8g.24xlarge, m8g.2xlarge, m8g.48xlarge, m8g.4xlarge, m8g.8xlarge, m8g.large, m8g.medium, m8g.metal-24xl, m8g.metal-48xl, m8g.xlargec3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarge
Generationsm6g.8xlarge, m7g.8xlarge, m8g.8xlarge, m9g.8xlargec3.8xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c6i.8xlarge, c7i.8xlarge, c8i.8xlarge
Variantsm8a.8xlarge, m8gb.8xlarge, m8gd.8xlarge, m8gn.8xlarge, m8i-flex.8xlarge, m8i.8xlarge, m8ib.8xlarge, m8id.8xlarge, m8idb.8xlarge, m8idn.8xlarge, m8in.8xlarge, m8ine.8xlarge
SageMakerml.m8g.8xlarge
RDSdb.m8g.8xlarge
OpenSearchm8g.8xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m8g.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units108
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 320 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
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 Performance15 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.19x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m8g.8xlarge
c3.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)1.0266n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)1.0266n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)n/a1.8390
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.43621.9120
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.6010n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.6608n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.6694n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.6755n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.6755n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.6755n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)1.7206n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)1.7606n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)1.7654n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)1.7952n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.43621.9120
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)1.7952n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)1.7952n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)1.7952n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)1.8093n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)1.8099n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)1.8550n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)1.8550n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)1.8925n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)1.9002n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)1.9747n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.50782.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)1.9747n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)2.2890n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.52612.0430
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.52612.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.52612.1170
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.59972.1170
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.60062.6000
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.6010n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.43621.6800
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.6800
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