c5a.8xlarge vs c8i-flex.8xlarge

Instance Typec5a.8xlargec8i-flex.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
8xlarge – 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
flex – Flex instance
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory64 GiB64 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-flex.12xlarge, c8i-flex.16xlarge, c8i-flex.2xlarge, c8i-flex.4xlarge, c8i-flex.8xlarge, c8i-flex.large, c8i-flex.xlarge
Generationsc5a.8xlarge, c6a.8xlarge, c7a.8xlarge, c8a.8xlargec7i-flex.8xlarge, c8i-flex.8xlarge
Variantsc5ad.8xlargec8a.8xlarge, c8g.8xlarge, c8gb.8xlarge, c8gd.8xlarge, c8gn.8xlarge, c8i.8xlarge, c8ib.8xlarge, c8id.8xlarge, c8in.8xlarge, c8ine.8xlarge
SageMakerml.c8i-flex.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3170 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3170 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput396.25 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance13300 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance13300 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3170 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput396.25 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 GigabitUp to 15000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces810
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.16x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c5a.8xlarge
c8i-flex.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a1.4243
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a1.3960
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.75201.4243
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.23201.4243
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.45601.6925
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.47201.6925
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.47201.7763
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.52001.7931
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.52001.8602
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.53601.9104
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)1.55201.9531
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)1.60002.1954
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)1.6480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)1.8880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.31201.4243
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.34401.4243
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.37601.5282
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.37601.5283
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.39201.5584
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.40801.6088
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.45601.6254
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.45601.6424
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.2320n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.2320n/a
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