c8gd.16xlarge vs r4.16xlarge

Instance Typec8gd.16xlarger4.16xlarge
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
d – Instance store volume
16xlarge – 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.

r – RAM / memory optimized
4 – Generation
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory128 GiB488 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc8gd.12xlarge, c8gd.16xlarge, c8gd.24xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c8gd.48xlarge, c8gd.4xlarge, c8gd.8xlarge, c8gd.large, c8gd.medium, c8gd.metal-24xl, c8gd.metal-48xl, c8gd.xlarger4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarge
Generationsc6gd.16xlarge, c7gd.16xlarge, c8gd.16xlarge, c9gd.16xlarger4.16xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r6i.16xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r8i.16xlarge
Variantsc8a.16xlarge, c8g.16xlarge, c8gb.16xlarge, c8gn.16xlarge, c8i-flex.16xlarge, c8i.16xlarge, c8ib.16xlarge, c8id.16xlarge, c8in.16xlarge
RDSdb.r4.16xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.16xlarge
OpenSearchr4.16xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units201
Instance Storage2 x 1900 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput20000 MBps12000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth20000 Mbps14000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2500 Mbps1750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS75000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS75000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth20000 Mbps14000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2500 Mbps1750 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance30 Gigabit20 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces1515
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface5050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.39x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c8gd.16xlarge
r4.16xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)3.1091n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)3.1091n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)3.13544.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)4.32135.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)4.86595.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a5.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a5.1216
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a8.9600
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)3.13544.6720
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)3.46184.7424
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)3.55974.7424
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)3.55974.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)3.62564.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)3.75555.1072
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)3.98465.1072
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)4.11525.1200
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a4.2560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.13544.2560
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a4.2560
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