c4.2xlarge vs c8gb.2xlarge

Instance Typec4.2xlargec8gb.2xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedCompute 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
4 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory15 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.9 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc4.2xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c4.large, c4.xlargec8gb.12xlarge, c8gb.16xlarge, c8gb.24xlarge, c8gb.2xlarge, c8gb.48xlarge, c8gb.4xlarge, c8gb.8xlarge, c8gb.large, c8gb.medium, c8gb.metal-24xl, c8gb.metal-48xl, c8gb.xlarge
Generationsc3.2xlarge, c4.2xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c6i.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge
Variantsc8a.2xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c8gn.2xlarge, c8i-flex.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge, c8ib.2xlarge, c8id.2xlarge, c8in.2xlarge, c8ine.2xlarge
SageMakerml.c4.2xlarge
OpenSearchc4.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1000 MBpsup to 25000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps12500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps1562.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance8000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1000 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput125 Mbps3125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 33.333 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.02x

Regional Prices

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c4.2xlarge
c8gb.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.4000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.5040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.5040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.5220n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.6180n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.4380n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.4530n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.4540n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.4540n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.4620n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.4760n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.4790n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.4980n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.3980n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.39800.4740
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.39800.4740
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