c4.8xlarge vs r5.8xlarge

Instance Typec4.8xlarger5.8xlarge
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
4 – 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
5 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3632
Memory60 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed2.9 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc4.2xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c4.large, c4.xlarger5.12xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r5.24xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r5.large, r5.metal, r5.xlarge
Generationsc3.8xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c6i.8xlarge, c7i.8xlarge, c8i.8xlarger3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarge
Variantsr5a.8xlarge, r5ad.8xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5d.8xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5n.8xlarge
SageMakerml.c4.8xlargeml.r5.8xlarge
RDSdb.r5.8xlarge, db.r5.8xlarge.tpc2.mem3x
DocumentDBdb.r5.8xlarge
OpenSearchc4.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units132128
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput4000 MBps6800 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth4000 Mbps6800 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput500 Mbps850 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance32000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance32000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4000 Mbps6800 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput500 Mbps850 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.27x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c4.8xlarge
r5.8xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.60002.0800
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.01602.3680
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.01602.3680
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.08502.3690
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.47002.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.4320
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.4320
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.4320
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.75002.0800
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a2.4320
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a2.4320
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a2.4320
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a2.4820
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a2.4820
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a2.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a2.6750
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a2.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a3.2160
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.81102.1440
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.81502.2080
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.81702.2080
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.84802.2400
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.90202.2560
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.91502.2560
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.99302.3680
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.59102.0160
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.59102.0160
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.59102.0160
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