m6g.xlarge vs c8g.xlarge

Instance Typem6g.xlargec8g.xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
xlarge – 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
g – AWS Graviton processor
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory16 GiB8 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm6g.12xlarge, m6g.16xlarge, m6g.2xlarge, m6g.4xlarge, m6g.8xlarge, m6g.large, m6g.medium, m6g.metal, m6g.xlargec8g.12xlarge, c8g.16xlarge, c8g.24xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c8g.48xlarge, c8g.4xlarge, c8g.8xlarge, c8g.large, c8g.medium, c8g.metal-24xl, c8g.metal-48xl, c8g.xlarge
Generationsm6g.xlarge, m7g.xlarge, m8g.xlarge, m9g.xlargec6g.xlarge, c7g.xlarge, c8g.xlarge, c9g.xlarge
Variantsm6a.xlarge, m6gd.xlarge, m6i.xlarge, m6id.xlarge, m6idn.xlarge, m6in.xlargec8a.xlarge, c8gb.xlarge, c8gd.xlarge, c8gn.xlarge, c8i-flex.xlarge, c8i.xlarge, c8ib.xlarge, c8id.xlarge, c8in.xlarge, c8ine.xlarge
SageMakerml.m6g.xlargeml.c8g.xlarge
RDSdb.m6g.xlarge
OpenSearchm6g.xlarge.searchc8g.xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m6g.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput1125 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1188 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput148.5 Mbps156.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp 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 Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.01x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m6g.xlarge
c8g.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.10120.1080
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.1558
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.10120.1080
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.15400.1558
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.17200.1791
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.17760.1795
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.17820.1801
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.17920.1814
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.17920.1833
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.18000.1833
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.18060.1884
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.18400.1889
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.18800.1889
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.18800.1908
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.15400.1590
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.18920.1908
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.19200.1982
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.19200.1996
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.19200.2001
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.19200.2001
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.19360.2002
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.19360.2076
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.19800.2076
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.19840.2132
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.20160.2180
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.16170.1595
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.20240.2444
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.2032n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.2120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.2448n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.16320.1595
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.16320.1702
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.16400.1705
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.17120.1706
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.17120.1739
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.17200.1739
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.1540n/a
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