d3en.8xlarge vs p3.8xlarge

Instance Typed3en.8xlargep3.8xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedGPU instance
DetailsMassively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehousing, MapReduce/Hadoop computing, distributed/file network systems, and log/data-processing applications.

d – Disk / storage optimized
3 – Generation
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
8xlarge – Size
GPU intensive tasks like machine/deep learning, high-performance computing

p – Performance / GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) accelerated
3 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64n/a
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core20
Accelerators
GPUnono
GPUs4
Inference Acceleratornono
Accelerator Memory64 GiB
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesd3en.12xlarge, d3en.2xlarge, d3en.4xlarge, d3en.6xlarge, d3en.8xlarge, d3en.xlargep3.16xlarge, p3.2xlarge, p3.8xlarge
Generationsp2.8xlarge, p3.8xlarge
Variantsd3.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance Storage16 x 14000 HDDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput5000 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth5000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput625 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance50 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces4
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface20
IPv6 Addresses per Interface20
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.85x

Regional Prices

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Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
d3en.8xlarge
p3.8xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)5.1310n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)5.271713.2200
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)5.271713.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)5.271714.3560
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)5.541514.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)6.098415.2920
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a16.7760
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a16.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a16.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a16.9360
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a12.2400
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.205812.2400
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.205812.2400
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