c8gb.metal-24xl vs r8a.metal-24xl

Instance Typec8gb.metal-24xlr8a.metal-24xl
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.

c – Compute optimized
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
metal-24xl – Bare metal
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.

r – RAM / memory optimized
8 – Generation
a – AMD processor
metal-24xl – Bare metal
vCPUs9696
Memory192 GiB768 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz4.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
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.xlarger8a.12xlarge, r8a.16xlarge, r8a.24xlarge, r8a.2xlarge, r8a.48xlarge, r8a.4xlarge, r8a.8xlarge, r8a.large, r8a.medium, r8a.metal-24xl, r8a.metal-48xl, r8a.xlarge
Variantsc8a.metal-24xl, c8g.metal-24xl, c8gd.metal-24xl, c8gn.metal-24xlr8g.metal-24xl, r8gb.metal-24xl, r8gd.metal-24xl, r8gn.metal-24xl
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput150000 MBps30000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth150000 Mbps30000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput18750 Mbps3750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance720000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance720000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth150000 Mbps30000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput18750 Mbps3750 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance200 Gigabit40000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces2416
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5064
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5064
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesno
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.47x

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