c3.8xlarge vs m8gb.8xlarge

Instance Typec3.8xlargem8gb.8xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedGeneral purpose
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
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory60 GiB128 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.xlargem8gb.12xlarge, m8gb.16xlarge, m8gb.24xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gb.48xlarge, m8gb.4xlarge, m8gb.8xlarge, m8gb.large, m8gb.medium, m8gb.metal-24xl, m8gb.metal-48xl, m8gb.xlarge
Generationsc3.8xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c6i.8xlarge, c7i.8xlarge, c8i.8xlarge
Variantsm8a.8xlarge, m8g.8xlarge, m8gd.8xlarge, m8gn.8xlarge, m8i-flex.8xlarge, m8i.8xlarge, m8ib.8xlarge, m8id.8xlarge, m8idb.8xlarge, m8idn.8xlarge, m8in.8xlarge, m8ine.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units108
Instance Storage2 x 320 SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput50000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth50000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput6250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance240000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance240000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth50000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput6250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit66.667 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 Diff1.00x1.21x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.8xlarge
m8gb.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)1.8390n/a
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a2.6019
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.9120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.9120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.0160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.0430n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.0640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.1170n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.1170n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.6000n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.68002.3280
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.68002.3280
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