c8gb.2xlarge vs m3.2xlarge

Instance Typec8gb.2xlargem3.2xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedGeneral purpose
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
b – EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
3 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB30 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc8gb.12xlarge, c8gb.16xlarge, c8gb.24xlarge, c8gb.2xlarge, c8gb.48xlarge, c8gb.4xlarge, c8gb.8xlarge, c8gb.large, c8gb.medium, c8gb.metal-24xl, c8gb.metal-48xl, c8gb.xlargem3.2xlarge, m3.large, m3.medium, m3.xlarge
Generationsm2.2xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge
Variantsc8a.2xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c8gn.2xlarge, c8i-flex.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge, c8ib.2xlarge, c8id.2xlarge, c8in.2xlarge, c8ine.2xlarge
RDSdb.m3.2xlarge
OpenSearchm3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units26
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 80 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 25000 MBps1000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth12500 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1562.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance60000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance120000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth25000 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput3125 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 33.333 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.41x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c8gb.2xlarge
m3.2xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a0.5850
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a0.6160
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.6320
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.7450
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.7610
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.7700
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.7840
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.47400.5320
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.47400.5320
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