c3.8xlarge vs r8g.8xlarge

Instance Typec3.8xlarger8g.8xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedMemory 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 databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory 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.xlarger8g.12xlarge, r8g.16xlarge, r8g.24xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8g.48xlarge, r8g.4xlarge, r8g.8xlarge, r8g.large, r8g.medium, r8g.metal-24xl, r8g.metal-48xl, r8g.xlarge
Generationsc3.8xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c6i.8xlarge, c7i.8xlarge, c8i.8xlarger6g.8xlarge, r7g.8xlarge, r8g.8xlarge, r9g.8xlarge
Variantsr8a.8xlarge, r8gb.8xlarge, r8gd.8xlarge, r8gn.8xlarge, r8i-flex.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarge, r8ib.8xlarge, r8id.8xlarge, r8idb.8xlarge, r8idn.8xlarge, r8in.8xlarge
SageMakerml.r8g.8xlarge
RDSdb.r8g.8xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r8g.8xlarge
OpenSearchr8g.8xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r8g.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units108
Instance Storage2 x 320 SSDEBS only
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 Gigabit15 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
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 Diff1.00x1.08x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.8xlarge
r8g.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a1.3213
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a1.3213
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)1.8390n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.91201.8851
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.1085
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.1094
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.2090
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.2141
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.2141
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.2590
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.2592
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.2592
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.2592
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.2739
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.91201.8851
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a2.2739
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a2.2739
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a2.2739
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a2.2739
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a2.2739
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a2.3203
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a2.3722
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a2.4992
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a2.5014
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a2.5133
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.01601.9328
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a2.9997
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.04301.9328
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.06401.9792
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.11702.0046
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.11702.0646
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.60002.0646
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.0944
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.68001.8851
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.6800n/a
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