c8g.large vs i3.large

Instance Typec8g.largei3.large
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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
large – 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
3 – Generation
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory4 GiB15.25 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc8g.12xlarge, c8g.16xlarge, c8g.24xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c8g.48xlarge, c8g.4xlarge, c8g.8xlarge, c8g.large, c8g.medium, c8g.metal-24xl, c8g.metal-48xl, c8g.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsc6g.large, c7g.large, c8g.large, c9g.largei2.large, i3.large, i4i.large, i7i.large
Variantsc8a.large, c8gb.large, c8gd.large, c8gn.large, c8i-flex.large, c8i.large, c8ib.large, c8id.large, c8in.large, c8ine.largei3en.large
SageMakerml.c8g.large
OpenSearchc8g.large.searchi3.large.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units8
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 475 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBps425 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth630 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput78.75 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance3600 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12.5 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.02x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c8g.large
i3.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.0540n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)0.0779n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.0540n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.07790.1630
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.08950.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.08980.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.09000.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.09070.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.09160.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.09160.1860
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.09420.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.09440.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.09440.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.09540.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.07950.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.09540.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.09910.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.09980.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.10000.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.10010.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.10010.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.10380.2060
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.10380.2490
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.1066n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.1090n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.07980.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.1222n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.07980.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.08510.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.08530.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.08530.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.08700.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.08700.1810
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.1560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a0.1560
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.1560
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