c8gd.2xlarge vs m8a.2xlarge
| c8gd.2xlarge | m8a.2xlarge |
| Compute optimized | General purpose |
| 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 d – Instance store volume 2xlarge – Size | Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 8 – Generation a – AMD processor 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 16 GiB | 32 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton4 Processor | AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor |
| 2.8 GHz | 4.5 GHz |
| 1 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| c8gd.12xlarge, c8gd.16xlarge, c8gd.24xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c8gd.48xlarge, c8gd.4xlarge, c8gd.8xlarge, c8gd.large, c8gd.medium, c8gd.metal-24xl, c8gd.metal-48xl, c8gd.xlarge | m8a.12xlarge, m8a.16xlarge, m8a.24xlarge, m8a.2xlarge, m8a.48xlarge, m8a.4xlarge, m8a.8xlarge, m8a.large, m8a.medium, m8a.metal-24xl, m8a.metal-48xl, m8a.xlarge |
| c6gd.2xlarge, c7gd.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge | m5a.2xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m8a.2xlarge |
| c8a.2xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c8gb.2xlarge, c8gn.2xlarge, c8i-flex.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge, c8ib.2xlarge, c8id.2xlarge, c8in.2xlarge, c8ine.2xlarge | m8g.2xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8i-flex.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8ib.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge, m8idb.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge, m8ine.2xlarge |
| db.m8a.2xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| 1 x 475 NVMe SSD | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 10240 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 2500 Mbps | 2500 Mbps |
| 312.5 Mbps | 312.5 Mbps |
| 12000 IOPS | 12000 IOPS |
| 40000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 10000 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 1250 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 15 Gigabit | Up to 15000 Megabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 40 |
| 15 | 40 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.21x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c8gd.2xlarge | m8a.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5) | 0.3886 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.3919 | 0.5426 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4327 | 0.5426 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.4450 | 0.5832 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.4450 | 0.6136 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.4532 | 0.6289 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.4694 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.4981 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.5144 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.6082 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.3919 | 0.4869 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.3919 | 0.4869 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.4869 |