AWS Amazon EC2

c8g.medium

Part of the C8G Compute Optimized family — High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimized88th GenerationgAWS GravitonmediumMedium

On-demand, Linux

$0.0270/ hr

~$19.70/mo · lowest in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), ap-south-2

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.01401/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −48% vs on-demand rate (ap-south-2)

Per unit

$0.0270/ vCPU-hr

$0.0135/GB-hr

Compute

1vCPUs

1 cores • arm64

Memory

2GB

2.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 12.5 Gbps

Baseline: 0.52 Gbps

Storage & EBS

1,250MB/s

Max: 40,000 IOPS

Alternatives to c8g.medium

Option	Price vs c8g.medium	Why look at it
m8g.medium Compare →	+13%+$0.005/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Different instance family, 4 GiB RAM instead of 2, same vCPU
r8g.medium Compare →	+48%+$0.019/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Different instance family, 8 GiB RAM instead of 2, same vCPU
c7g.medium Compare →	-9%-$0.0036/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Previous generation, same vCPU and RAM
c6g.medium Compare →	-15%-$0.0059/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Older generation, same vCPU and RAM

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to c8g.medium by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c8g.medium
c8g.mediumThis page · AWS, us-east-1	1 vCPU · 2 GiB	$0.03988/hr	—
n4a-highcpu-1same 1 vCPU and 2 GiB; Arm on both	1 vCPU · 2 GiB	$0.03248/hr	19% less
c4a-highcpu-1same 1 vCPU and 2 GiB; Arm on both	1 vCPU · 2 GiB	$0.03788/hr	5.0% 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

ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor

Architecturearm64 (ARM64 (Graviton))

vCPUs / Threads1 vCPUs

Physical Cores1

Clock Speed2.7 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score30,161

CoreMark / vCPU30,161.4 / core

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CoreMark per Dollar1,117,488 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0270

Cost per GB-hr$0.0135

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods8 pods

Max ENIs2

IPv4/v6 per ENI4

Total Addressable IPs8 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceUp to 12.5 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth0.52 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 Throughput39.375 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput1250 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS2,500

EBS Max / Burst IOPS40,000

Dedicated EBS ThroughputUp to 10 Gbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor2

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.0270/ hr

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)

Highest Price Region

$0.0611/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$0.0454/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

33regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 33 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$0.0533
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$0.0500
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Lowest	$0.0270
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	$0.0458
ap-southeast-5 Asia Pacific (Malaysia)	$0.0389
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne)	$0.0519
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Lowest	$0.0270
ap-southeast-6 Asia Pacific (New Zealand)	$0.0545
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$0.0500
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.0449
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.0458
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.0519
ap-east-2 Asia Pacific (Taipei)	$0.0450
ap-southeast-7 Asia Pacific (Thailand)	$0.0389
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.0500
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$0.0477
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.0477
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.0435
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary)	$0.0435
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.0454
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.0426
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.0472
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$0.0471
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.0472
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$0.0425
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.0426
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)	$0.0499
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$0.0448
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.0611
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)	$0.0399
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)	$0.0397
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.0496
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)	$0.0399

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 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for c8g.medium on Linux is 52% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 52% of the hours for the commitment to cost less than on-demand.
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.