AWS Amazon EC2

c8i-flex.2xlarge

Part of the C8I-FLEX Compute Optimized family — High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimized88th GenerationiIntel Xeon ScalableflexFlex Instance2xlarge2 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$0.3490/ hr

~$254.77/mo · lowest in Asia Pacific (Malaysia), ap-southeast-5

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.17192/ hr

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

Per unit

$0.0436/ vCPU-hr

$0.0218/GB-hr

Compute

8vCPUs

4 cores • x86_64

Memory

16GB

2.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 15 Gbps

Baseline: 1.875 Gbps

Storage & EBS

1,250MB/s

Max: 40,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to c8i-flex.2xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c8i-flex.2xlarge
c8i-flex.2xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	8 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.35608/hr	—
n4-highcpu-8same 8 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both; c8i-flex.2xlarge is CPU-capped (flex)	8 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.30616/hr	14% less
c3-highcpu-8same 8 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both; c8i-flex.2xlarge is CPU-capped (flex)	8 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.340208/hr	4.5% less
c4-highcpu-8same 8 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both; c8i-flex.2xlarge is CPU-capped (flex)	8 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.340208/hr	4.5% 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

ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads8 vCPUs

Physical Cores4

Clock Speed3.9 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score188,066

CoreMark / vCPU23,508.2 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding76 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar538,871 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0436

Cost per GB-hr$0.0218

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods118 pods

Max ENIs4

IPv4/v6 per ENI30

Total Addressable IPs120 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceUp to 15 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth1.875 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth15 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput156.25 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput1250 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS6,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS40,000

Dedicated EBS ThroughputUp to 10000 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor16

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.3490/ hr

Asia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)

Highest Price Region

$0.5488/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$0.4110/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

20regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 20 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$0.4776
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	$0.3561
ap-southeast-5 Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Lowest	$0.3490
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.3561
ap-southeast-6 Asia Pacific (New Zealand)	$0.4883
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.4022
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.4106
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.4650
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.4483
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.3896
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.4064
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.3821
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.4231
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.4231
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.3820
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.5488
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)	$0.3561
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)	$0.3561
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.4441
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)	$0.3561

Windows — Available in all 20 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$0.8272
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	$0.7057
ap-southeast-5 Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Lowest	$0.6986
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.7057
ap-southeast-6 Asia Pacific (New Zealand)	$0.8379
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.7518
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.7602
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.8146
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.7979
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.7392
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.7560
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.7317
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.7727
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.7727
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.7316
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.8984
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)	$0.7057
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)	$0.7057
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.7937
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)	$0.7057

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 c8i-flex.2xlarge 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.