c8gn.8xlarge vs d2.8xlarge

Instance Typec8gn.8xlarged2.8xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedStorage 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
8xlarge – Size
Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehousing, MapReduce/Hadoop computing, distributed/file network systems, and log/data-processing applications.

d – Disk / storage optimized
2 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3236
Memory64 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core12
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.xlarged2.2xlarge, d2.4xlarge, d2.8xlarge, d2.xlarge
Generationsc6gn.8xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c8gn.8xlarged2.8xlarge, d3.8xlarge
Variantsc8a.8xlarge, c8g.8xlarge, c8gb.8xlarge, c8gd.8xlarge, c8i-flex.8xlarge, c8i.8xlarge, c8ib.8xlarge, c8id.8xlarge, c8in.8xlarge, c8ine.8xlarge
ElastiCachecache.c8gn.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units116
Instance StorageEBS only24 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput20000 MBps4000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth20000 Mbps4000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput2500 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance80000 IOPS32000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance80000 IOPS32000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth20000 Mbps4000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2500 Mbps500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance100 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces108
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.90x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c8gn.8xlarge
d2.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)1.8944n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)1.8506n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)1.8506n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.89605.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.14186.6120
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.15946.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.17706.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.17706.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.24706.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.24706.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.26466.9600
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.28226.9600
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.28227.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.35427.6560
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.89605.8800
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)2.3699n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)2.3792n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)2.3875n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)2.4746n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)2.4755n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)2.5104n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)2.5491n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)2.9142n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.89606.0720
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.89606.1740
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.03656.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.07176.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.07176.2500
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.14026.3520
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.14186.4680
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a5.5200
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a5.5200
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a5.5200
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