c6a.xlarge vs r8g.xlarge

Instance Typec6a.xlarger8g.xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedMemory 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
xlarge – 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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory8 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R13 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.6 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
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.xlarger8g.12xlarge, r8g.16xlarge, r8g.24xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8g.48xlarge, r8g.4xlarge, r8g.8xlarge, r8g.large, r8g.medium, r8g.metal-24xl, r8g.metal-48xl, r8g.xlarge
Generationsc5a.xlarge, c6a.xlarge, c7a.xlarge, c8a.xlarger6g.xlarge, r7g.xlarge, r8g.xlarge
Variantsc6g.xlarge, c6gd.xlarge, c6gn.xlarge, c6i.xlarge, c6id.xlarge, c6in.xlarger8a.xlarge, r8gb.xlarge, r8gd.xlarge, r8gn.xlarge, r8i-flex.xlarge, r8i.xlarge, r8ib.xlarge, r8id.xlarge, r8idb.xlarge, r8idn.xlarge, r8in.xlarge
SageMakerml.r8g.xlarge
RDSdb.r8g.xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r8g.xlarge
OpenSearchr8g.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 6667 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput156.25 Mbps156.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12500 MegabitUp to 12.5 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.59x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
c6a.xlarge
r8g.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.09350.1652
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.09350.1652
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.15300.2356
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.19440.2768
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.19980.2768
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.23580.2824
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.2824
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.2824
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.2824
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.2842
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.2842
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.2842
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.2842
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.15300.2356
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.2842
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.2842
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.2900
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.3124
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.3127
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.3750
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.16420.2416
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.16740.2474
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.17460.2506
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.17640.2581
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.18180.2618
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.19080.2636
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.19260.2637
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.15300.2356
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