c5a.2xlarge vs c8i.2xlarge

Instance Typec5a.2xlargec8i.2xlarge
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
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
i – Intel processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed3.3 GHz3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc5a.12xlarge, c5a.16xlarge, c5a.24xlarge, c5a.2xlarge, c5a.4xlarge, c5a.8xlarge, c5a.large, c5a.xlargec8i.12xlarge, c8i.16xlarge, c8i.24xlarge, c8i.2xlarge, c8i.32xlarge, c8i.48xlarge, c8i.4xlarge, c8i.8xlarge, c8i.96xlarge, c8i.large, c8i.metal-48xl, c8i.metal-96xl, c8i.xlarge
Generationsc5a.2xlarge, c6a.2xlarge, c7a.2xlarge, c8a.2xlargec6i.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge
Variantsc5.2xlarge, c5ad.2xlarge, c5d.2xlarge, c5n.2xlargec8a.2xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c8gb.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c8gn.2xlarge, c8i-flex.2xlarge, c8ib.2xlarge, c8id.2xlarge, c8in.2xlarge, c8ine.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3170 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth800 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput100 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3200 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13300 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 15000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.21x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5a.2xlarge
c8i.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.3748
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.3674
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.18800.3748
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.30800.3748
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.36400.4322
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.36800.4454
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.36800.4454
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.38000.4674
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.38000.4719
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.38400.4895
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.38800.5028
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.40000.5140
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.41200.5777
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.4720n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.32800.3748
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.33600.3748
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.34400.4013
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.34400.4022
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.34800.4022
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.35200.4101
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.36400.4234
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.36400.4278
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.3080n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.3080n/a
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