c3.8xlarge vs r8gd.8xlarge

Instance Typec3.8xlarger8gd.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
d – Instance store volume
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.xlarger8gd.12xlarge, r8gd.16xlarge, r8gd.24xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gd.48xlarge, r8gd.4xlarge, r8gd.8xlarge, r8gd.large, r8gd.medium, r8gd.metal-24xl, r8gd.metal-48xl, r8gd.xlarge
Generationsc3.8xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c6i.8xlarge, c7i.8xlarge, c8i.8xlarger6gd.8xlarge, r7gd.8xlarge, r8gd.8xlarge, r9gd.8xlarge
Variantsr8a.8xlarge, r8g.8xlarge, r8gb.8xlarge, r8gn.8xlarge, r8i-flex.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarge, r8ib.8xlarge, r8id.8xlarge, r8idb.8xlarge, r8idn.8xlarge, r8in.8xlarge
RDSdb.r8gd.8xlarge
OpenSearchr8gd.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units108
Instance Storage2 x 320 SSD1 x 1900 NVMe SSD
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 Diff1.00x1.35x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.8xlarge
r8gd.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a1.5206
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)1.8390n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.91202.3514
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.7059
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.7434
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.7597
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.7606
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.8250
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.8250
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.8250
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.8259
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.8413
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.8413
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.91202.4150
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a2.8413
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a2.8413
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a2.8413
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a2.8579
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a3.1027
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a3.1075
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a3.7232
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.01602.4822
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.04302.5571
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.06402.5798
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.11702.5798
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.11702.6128
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.60002.6128
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.6454
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a2.3514
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.68002.3514
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.6800n/a
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