AWS Amazon EC2

c4.8xlarge

Part of the C4 Compute Optimized family — High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimized44th Generation8xlarge8 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$1.5910/ hr

~$1,161.43/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.8150/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −49% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0442/ vCPU-hr

$0.0265/GB-hr

Compute

36vCPUs

18 cores • x86_64

Memory

60GB

1.7 GB / vCPU

Network

10 Gbps

Baseline: 10 Gbps

Storage & EBS

500MB/s

Max: 32,000 IOPS

Alternatives to c4.8xlarge

Option	Price vs c4.8xlarge	Why look at it
c6i.8xlarge Compare →	-15%-$0.231/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, 32 vCPU and 64 GiB RAM instead of 36 and 60
c7i.8xlarge Compare →	-10%-$0.163/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, 32 vCPU and 64 GiB RAM instead of 36 and 60
c7g.8xlarge Compare →	-27%-$0.431/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), newer generation, 32 vCPU and 64 GiB RAM instead of 36 and 60

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to c4.8xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c4.8xlarge
c4.8xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	36 vCPU · 60 GiB	$1.5910/hr	—
c3-highcpu-4444 vCPU and 88 GiB for 36 vCPU and 60 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 18 physical cores vs 22	44 vCPU · 88 GiB	$1.871144/hr	18% more
n2-highcpu-6464 vCPU and 64 GiB for 36 vCPU and 60 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 18 physical cores vs 32	64 vCPU · 64 GiB	$2.584064/hr	62% more
n4-highcpu-4848 vCPU and 96 GiB for 36 vCPU and 60 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 18 physical cores vs 24	48 vCPU · 96 GiB	$1.83696/hr	15% more

Matched on vCPU and memory, then CPU vendor, then rate; a larger size is offered only when nothing is the same size. On-demand Linux only: Spot and commitments work differently on the two clouds, so they aren't compared here.

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads36 vCPUs

Physical Cores18

Clock Speed2.9 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score597,510

CoreMark / vCPU16,597.5 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding155 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar375,556 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0442

Cost per GB-hr$0.0265

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods234 pods

Max ENIs8

IPv4/v6 per ENI30

Total Addressable IPs240 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network Performance10 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth10 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth10 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput500 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput500 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS32,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS32,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput4000 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor64

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$1.5910/ hr

US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)

Highest Price Region

$2.4700/ hr

South America (Sao Paulo) (sa-east-1)

Global Fleet Average

$1.8632/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

16regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 16 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$1.6000
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$2.0160
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$1.8150
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$1.8480
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$2.0850
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$2.0160
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$1.9150
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$1.7500
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$1.8170
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$1.8110
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$1.9020
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$2.4700
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$1.5910
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$1.5910
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$1.9930
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$1.5910

Windows — Available in all 16 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$3.2560
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$3.6720
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$3.4710
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$3.5040
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$3.7410
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$3.6720
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$3.5710
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$3.4060
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$3.4730
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$3.3340
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$3.5580
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$4.1260
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$3.0910
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$3.0910
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$3.5360
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$3.0910

Savings Plans: what to know

A Savings Plan commits you to a dollar amount per hour of spend for one or three years, not to an instance: usage up to that amount is billed at the plan's rates and the rest at on-demand, and unused commitment is still billed.
A Compute Savings Plan follows your usage across instance families, sizes, regions and operating systems; an EC2 Instance Savings Plan is locked to one family in one region in exchange for a lower rate (what that flexibility costs).
In US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for c4.8xlarge on Linux is 51% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 51% of the hours for the commitment to cost less than on-demand.
On Windows a plan discounts only the compute part of the rate: the Windows license part costs the same as on demand, so the percentage off is smaller than on Linux.
Rates are AWS's effective hourly rate for each payment option; All Upfront pays the whole term's commitment at purchase, which is why its hourly rate is lower; Partial Upfront (at least half up front) isn't shown on this page. The Savings Plans calculator has all three and sizes a commitment for this instance or a mix of them. How AWS applies a plan each hour: how Compute Savings Plans decide what they cover. Sizing one for elastic workloads: managing Compute Savings Plans.