c5ad.8xlarge vs c4.8xlarge

Instance Typec5ad.8xlargec4.8xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedCompute optimized
DetailsHigh-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
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
d – Instance store volume
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
4 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3236
Memory64 GiB60 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed3.3 GHz2.9 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc5ad.12xlarge, c5ad.16xlarge, c5ad.24xlarge, c5ad.2xlarge, c5ad.4xlarge, c5ad.8xlarge, c5ad.large, c5ad.xlargec4.2xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c4.large, c4.xlarge
Generationsc3.8xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c6i.8xlarge, c7i.8xlarge, c8i.8xlarge
Variantsc5a.8xlarge
SageMakerml.c4.8xlarge
OpenSearchc4.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units132
Instance Storage2 x 600 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput3170 MBps4000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3170 Mbps4000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput396.25 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance13300 IOPS32000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13300 IOPS32000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps4000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 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 Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.13x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5ad.8xlarge
c4.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.56801.6000
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.0850
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.4700
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.60001.7500
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.61601.8110
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.64801.8150
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.72801.8170
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.80801.8480
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.87201.9020
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.14401.9150
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.9930
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.37601.5910
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.37601.5910
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.37601.5910
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