h1.2xlarge vs c8gb.2xlarge

Instance Typeh1.2xlargec8gb.2xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedCompute optimized
DetailsAmazon EMR workloads, distributed file systems (HDFS, MapR-FS), network file systems, log/data processing apps (like Apache Kafka), and big data clusters.

h – HDD / hard disk throughput optimized
1 – Generation
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
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlargec8gb.12xlarge, c8gb.16xlarge, c8gb.24xlarge, c8gb.2xlarge, c8gb.48xlarge, c8gb.4xlarge, c8gb.8xlarge, c8gb.large, c8gb.medium, c8gb.metal-24xl, c8gb.metal-48xl, c8gb.xlarge
Variantsc8a.2xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c8gn.2xlarge, c8i-flex.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge, c8ib.2xlarge, c8id.2xlarge, c8in.2xlarge, c8ine.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance Storage1 x 2000 HDDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1750 MBpsup to 25000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps12500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps1562.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1750 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput218.75 Mbps3125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 33.333 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.11x

Regional Prices

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h1.2xlarge
c8gb.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.51900.5091
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.5354
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.5398
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.5618
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.5925
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.6373
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.46800.4740
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.46800.4740
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.46800.4740
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