c8gb.2xlarge vs r3.2xlarge

Instance Typec8gb.2xlarger3.2xlarge
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.

cCompute optimized
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
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.

rRAM / memory optimized
3 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy 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.xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsr3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
Variantsc8a.2xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c8gn.2xlarge, c8i-flex.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge, c8ib.2xlarge, c8id.2xlarge, c8in.2xlarge, c8ine.2xlarge
RDSdb.r3.2xlarge
OpenSearchr3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units26
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 160 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 25000 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 Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.69x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
c8gb.2xlarge
r3.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a0.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.7580
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.8000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.6640
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.47400.6650
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.47400.6650
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