c8gd.2xlarge vs r5dn.2xlarge

Instance Typec8gd.2xlarger5dn.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.

c – Compute optimized
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
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
5 – Generation
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz3.1 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.xlarger5dn.12xlarge, r5dn.16xlarge, r5dn.24xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5dn.4xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5dn.large, r5dn.metal, r5dn.xlarge
Generationsc6gd.2xlarge, c7gd.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c9gd.2xlarger5dn.2xlarge, r6idn.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge
Variantsc8a.2xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c8gb.2xlarge, c8gn.2xlarge, c8i-flex.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge, c8ib.2xlarge, c8id.2xlarge, c8in.2xlarge, c8ine.2xlarger5.2xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
Instance Storage1 x 475 NVMe SSD1 x 300 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10240 MBpsup to 2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps2300 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps287.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS18750 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 15 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.69x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c8gd.2xlarge
r5dn.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)0.3886n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)0.3886n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.39190.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.54020.8120
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.60820.8160
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.8840
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.39190.7440
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.43270.7840
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.44500.7840
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.44500.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.45320.7960
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.46940.8000
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.49810.8040
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.51440.8040
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.6680
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.39190.6680
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.6680
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