c6a.8xlarge vs c4.8xlarge

Instance Typec6a.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
6 – Generation
a – AMD processor
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 7R13 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed3.6 GHz2.9 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc6a.12xlarge, c6a.16xlarge, c6a.24xlarge, c6a.2xlarge, c6a.32xlarge, c6a.48xlarge, c6a.4xlarge, c6a.8xlarge, c6a.large, c6a.metal, c6a.xlargec4.2xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c4.large, c4.xlarge
Generationsc5a.8xlarge, c6a.8xlarge, c7a.8xlarge, c8a.8xlargec3.8xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c6i.8xlarge, c7i.8xlarge, c8i.8xlarge
Variantsc6g.8xlarge, c6gd.8xlarge, c6gn.8xlarge, c6i.8xlarge, c6id.8xlarge, c6in.8xlarge
SageMakerml.c6a.8xlargeml.c4.8xlarge
OpenSearchc4.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units132
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput6667 MBps4000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps4000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS32000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS32000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps4000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12500 Megabit10 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 Diff1.00x1.38x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c6a.8xlarge
c4.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.7480n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.7480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.22401.6000
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.55522.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.59842.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.88642.0850
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.4700
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.22401.7500
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.31331.8110
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.33921.8150
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.39681.8170
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.41121.8480
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.45441.9020
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.52641.9150
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.54081.9930
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a1.5910
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.22401.5910
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.5910
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