AWS Amazon EC2

c8gb.xlarge

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

Name:cCompute Optimized88th GenerationgAWS GravitonbBlock Storage Optimized (EBS)xlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.2370/ hr

~$173.01/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.09911/ 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

4vCPUs

4 cores • arm64

Memory

8GB

2.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 26.667 Gbps

Baseline: 8.333 Gbps

Storage & EBS

3,125MB/s

Max: 120,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

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

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c8gb.xlarge
c8gb.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	4 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.2370/hr	—
n4a-highcpu-4same 4 vCPU and 8 GiB; Arm on both	4 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.12992/hr	45% less
c4a-highcpu-4same 4 vCPU and 8 GiB; Arm on both	4 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.15152/hr	36% less
n4d-highcpu-4same 4 vCPU and 8 GiB; Arm (arm64) vs AMD (x86_64); 4 physical cores vs 2	4 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.14292/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 / Threads4 vCPUs

Physical Cores4

Clock Speed2.8 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score120,682

CoreMark / vCPU30,170.5 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding46 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar509,207 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 26.667 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth8.333 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth26.666 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput781.25 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput3125 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS30,000

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 Factor8

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.2370/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.3186/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$0.2666/ 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	$0.3186
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.2699
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.2677
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.2809
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$0.2546
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.2370
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.2370
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.2962
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.2370

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.xlarge 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.