c9gd.metal-48xl vs x8i.metal-48xl

Instance Typec9gd.metal-48xlx8i.metal-48xl
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
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
metal-48xl – Bare metal
In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
metal-48xl – Bare metal
vCPUs192192
Memory384 GiB3072 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton5 ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed3.3 GHz3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc9gd.12xlarge, c9gd.16xlarge, c9gd.24xlarge, c9gd.2xlarge, c9gd.48xlarge, c9gd.4xlarge, c9gd.8xlarge, c9gd.large, c9gd.medium, c9gd.metal-48xl, c9gd.xlargex8i.12xlarge, x8i.16xlarge, x8i.24xlarge, x8i.2xlarge, x8i.32xlarge, x8i.48xlarge, x8i.4xlarge, x8i.64xlarge, x8i.8xlarge, x8i.96xlarge, x8i.large, x8i.metal-48xl, x8i.metal-96xl, x8i.xlarge
Generationsc8gd.metal-48xl, c9gd.metal-48xl
Variantsc9g.metal-48xlx8g.metal-48xl
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage3 x 3800 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput72000 MBps60000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth72000 Mbps60000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput9000 Mbps7500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance288000 IOPS240000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance288000 IOPS240000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth72000 Mbps60000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput9000 Mbps7500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance100 Gigabit75000 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces2424
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface6464
IPv6 Addresses per Interface6464
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportyesyes
EFA Max Interfaces11
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportyesyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.44x

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