m5.xlarge vs c8gb.xlarge

Instance Typem5.xlargec8gb.xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
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
b – EBS optimized
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory16 GiB8 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.1 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5.12xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m5.24xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m5.4xlarge, m5.8xlarge, m5.large, m5.metal, m5.xlargec8gb.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
Generationsm1.xlarge, m2.xlarge, m3.xlarge, m4.xlarge, m5.xlarge, m6i.xlarge, m7i.xlarge, m8i.xlarge
Variantsm5a.xlarge, m5ad.xlarge, m5d.xlarge, m5dn.xlarge, m5n.xlarge, m5zn.xlargec8a.xlarge, c8g.xlarge, c8gd.xlarge, c8gn.xlarge, c8i-flex.xlarge, c8i.xlarge, c8ib.xlarge, c8id.xlarge, c8in.xlarge, c8ine.xlarge
SageMakerml.m5.xlarge
RDSdb.m5.xlarge
OpenSearchm5.xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m5.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units16
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBpsup to 25000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1150 Mbps6250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput143.75 Mbps781.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance18750 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps3125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 26.667 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 Diff1.00x1.03x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m5.xlarge
c8gb.xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.2020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.2240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.2240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.2250n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.2300n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.2350n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.2350n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.2360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.2400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.2400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.2400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.2020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.2400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.2420n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.2420n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.2480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.2480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.2530n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.2540n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.2640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.3060n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.2040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.2140n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.2140n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.2140n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.2140n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.2220n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.2240n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.1920n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.19200.2370
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.19200.2370
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