AWS Amazon EC2

c8gb.2xlarge

Part of the C8GB Compute Optimized family — High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimized88th GenerationgAWS GravitonbBlock Storage Optimized (EBS)2xlarge2 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$0.4740/ hr

~$346.02/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.19822/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −58% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0592/ vCPU-hr

$0.0296/GB-hr

Compute

8vCPUs

8 cores • arm64

Memory

16GB

2.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 33.333 Gbps

Baseline: 16.666 Gbps

Storage & EBS

3,125MB/s

Max: 120,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to c8gb.2xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c8gb.2xlarge
c8gb.2xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	8 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.4740/hr	—
n4a-highcpu-8same 8 vCPU and 16 GiB; Arm on both	8 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.25984/hr	45% less
c4a-highcpu-8same 8 vCPU and 16 GiB; Arm on both	8 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.30304/hr	36% less
n4d-highcpu-8same 8 vCPU and 16 GiB; Arm (arm64) vs AMD (x86_64); 8 physical cores vs 4	8 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.28584/hr	40% 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 / Threads8 vCPUs

Physical Cores8

Clock Speed2.8 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score255,244

CoreMark / vCPU31,905.6 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding88 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar538,489 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0592

Cost per GB-hr$0.0296

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods58 pods

Max ENIs4

IPv4/v6 per ENI15

Total Addressable IPs60 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceUp to 33.333 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth16.666 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth33.333 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput1562.5 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput3125 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS60,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS120,000

Dedicated EBS ThroughputUp to 25000 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor16

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.4740/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.6373/ hr

Africa (Cape Town) (af-south-1)

Global Fleet Average

$0.5331/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

9regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 9 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town) Highest	$0.6373
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.5398
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.5354
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.5618
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$0.5091
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.4740
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.4740
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.5925
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.4740

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 c8gb.2xlarge on Linux is 42% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 42% 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.