c8gn.2xlarge vs r8gd.2xlarge

Instance Typec8gn.2xlarger8gd.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
n – Network and EBS optimized
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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc8gn.12xlarge, c8gn.16xlarge, c8gn.24xlarge, c8gn.2xlarge, c8gn.48xlarge, c8gn.4xlarge, c8gn.8xlarge, c8gn.large, c8gn.medium, c8gn.metal-24xl, c8gn.metal-48xl, c8gn.xlarger8gd.12xlarge, r8gd.16xlarge, r8gd.24xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge, r8gd.48xlarge, r8gd.4xlarge, r8gd.8xlarge, r8gd.large, r8gd.medium, r8gd.metal-24xl, r8gd.metal-48xl, r8gd.xlarge
Generationsc6gn.2xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c8gn.2xlarger6gd.2xlarge, r7gd.2xlarge, r8gd.2xlarge
Variantsc8a.2xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c8gb.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c8i-flex.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge, c8ib.2xlarge, c8id.2xlarge, c8in.2xlarge, c8ine.2xlarger8a.2xlarge, r8g.2xlarge, r8gb.2xlarge, r8gn.2xlarge, r8i-flex.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge, r8id.2xlarge, r8idb.2xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge, r8in.2xlarge
RDSdb.r8gd.2xlarge
OpenSearchr8gd.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.c8gn.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 475 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth5000 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput625 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 50 GigabitUp to 15 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
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 Diff1.00x1.22x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c8gn.2xlarge
r8gd.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.4736n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)0.4626n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a0.3802
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)0.4626n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.47400.5878
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.53540.6765
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.53980.6858
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.54420.6899
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.54420.6902
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.56180.7062
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.56620.7062
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.57060.7062
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.57060.7065
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.58860.7103
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.59250.7103
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.47400.6038
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.59480.7103
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.59690.7103
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.61860.7103
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.61890.7145
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.62760.7757
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.63730.9308
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.7286n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.47400.6206
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47400.6393
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.50910.6450
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.51790.6450
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.51790.6532
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.53500.6532
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.53540.6614
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.5878
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a0.5878
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