c5.18xlarge vs i8ge.18xlarge

Instance Typec5.18xlargei8ge.18xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedStorage 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
18xlarge – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
e – Extra storage or memory
18xlarge – Size
vCPUs7272
Memory144 GiB576 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8124MAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.4 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc5.12xlarge, c5.18xlarge, c5.24xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c5.9xlarge, c5.large, c5.metal, c5.xlargei8ge.12xlarge, i8ge.18xlarge, i8ge.24xlarge, i8ge.2xlarge, i8ge.3xlarge, i8ge.48xlarge, i8ge.6xlarge, i8ge.large, i8ge.metal-24xl, i8ge.metal-48xl, i8ge.xlarge
Variantsc5d.18xlarge, c5n.18xlarge
SageMakerml.c5.18xlarge
OpenSearchc5.18xlarge.searchi8ge.18xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units281
Instance StorageEBS only6 x 7500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput9000 MBps22500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth19000 Mbps22500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2375 Mbps2812.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS90000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS90000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth19000 Mbps22500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2375 Mbps2812.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 Gigabit112.5 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1516
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.69x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5.18xlarge
i8ge.18xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)3.0600n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)3.0600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.06008.9586
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)3.528010.0548
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)3.528010.2060
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)3.629010.2438
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)3.636010.2438
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)3.636010.3194
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)3.636010.3194
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)3.672011.2833
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)3.6720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)3.8020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)3.8020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.06009.2232
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)3.8160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)3.8410n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)3.8520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)3.8520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)3.8880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)3.9960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)3.9960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)4.1040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)4.7160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.27609.2232
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.34809.4500
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.34809.4500
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.45609.7146
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.45609.9414
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.45609.9414
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)3.492010.0548
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a8.5428
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.06008.5428
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a8.5428
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