AWS Amazon EC2

c7a.8xlarge

Part of the C7A Compute Optimized family — High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimized77th GenerationaAMD EPYC8xlarge8 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$1.6422/ hr

~$1,198.84/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.79291/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −52% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0513/ vCPU-hr

$0.0257/GB-hr

Compute

32vCPUs

32 cores • x86_64

Memory

64GB

2.0 GB / vCPU

Network

12.5 Gbps

Baseline: 12.5 Gbps

Storage & EBS

1,250MB/s

Max: 40,000 IOPS

Alternatives to c7a.8xlarge

Option	Price vs c7a.8xlarge	Why look at it
c7i.8xlarge Compare →	-13%-$0.214/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Intel (x86_64), same vCPU and RAM
c7g.8xlarge Compare →	-29%-$0.482/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), same vCPU and RAM
c7i-flex.8xlarge Compare →	-17%-$0.286/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Intel (x86_64), same vCPU and RAM

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to c7a.8xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c7a.8xlarge
c7a.8xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	32 vCPU · 64 GiB	$1.64224/hr	—
n4d-highcpu-32same 32 vCPU and 64 GiB; AMD on both; 32 physical cores vs 16	32 vCPU · 64 GiB	$1.14336/hr	30% less
c2d-highcpu-32same 32 vCPU and 64 GiB; AMD on both; 32 physical cores vs 16	32 vCPU · 64 GiB	$1.350784/hr	18% less
n4-highcpu-32same 32 vCPU and 64 GiB; AMD vs Intel; 32 physical cores vs 16	32 vCPU · 64 GiB	$1.22464/hr	25% less

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

ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R14 Processor

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads32 vCPUs

Physical Cores32

Clock SpeedUp to 3.7 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score1,061,008

CoreMark / vCPU33,156.5 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding285 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar646,074 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0513

Cost per GB-hr$0.0257

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods234 pods

Max ENIs8

IPv4/v6 per ENI30

Total Addressable IPs240 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network Performance12.5 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth12.5 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth12.5 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput1250 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput1250 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS40,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS40,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput10000 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor64

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$1.6422/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$2.0672/ hr

Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1)

Global Fleet Average

$1.8220/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

11regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 11 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$1.8934
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Highest	$2.0672
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$1.8741
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$1.7619
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$1.9514
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$1.7581
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$1.7616
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$1.6422
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$1.6422
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$2.0478
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$1.6422

Windows — Available in all 11 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$3.3654
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Highest	$3.5392
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$3.3461
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$3.2339
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$3.4234
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$3.2301
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$3.2336
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$3.1142
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$3.1142
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$3.5198
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$3.1142

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 c7a.8xlarge on Linux is 48% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 48% 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.