c4.8xlargevsr4.8xlarge

c4.8xlarge is 25% cheaper than r4.8xlarge on demand in US East (N. Virginia), saving $392.01 a month. Per vCPU, c4.8xlarge costs 34% less.

At a glancec4.8xlarger4.8xlarge
On-demand$1.591/hr25% less$2.128/hr
Lowest rate$0.4423/hr27% lessSpot, can be interrupted$0.6055/hrSpot, can be interrupted
Size36 vCPUs, 60 GiB32 vCPUs, 244 GiB
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Architecturex86_64x86_64

Prices in US East (N. Virginia)

“Off” is the discount against each type’s own on-demand price. Linux, USD per hour.

Optionc4.8xlarger4.8xlarger4.8xlarge vs c4.8xlarge
On-demandPay by the hour$1.591$2.128▲ 34%
SpotCan be interrupted72% off$0.442372% off$0.6055▲ 37%
1-yr reservedNo upfront37% off$1.00837% off$1.344▲ 33%
3-yr reservedNo upfront55% off$0.70857% off$0.9158▲ 29%
1-yr savings planHourly commitment27% off$1.15927% off$1.546▲ 33%
3-yr savings planHourly commitment49% off$0.81551% off$1.053▲ 29%

Key differences

The biggest lead each one has.

Where c4.8xlarge leads
On-demand price$1.591 vs $2.128 per hour
25% cheaper
ECU132 vs 97
36% higher
Where r4.8xlarge leads
Memory (GiB)244 vs 60
4.1× higher
EBS baseline bandwidth7,000 Mbps vs 4,000 Mbps
75% higher
Network baseline12 Gbps vs 10 Gbps
20% higher

Specs

20 of 41 specs differ. Those are in bold.

Compute6 of 11 differc4.8xlarger4.8xlarge
vCPUs3632
Physical cores1816
Threads per core22
Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
CPU makerIntelIntel
Clock speed2.9 GHz2.3 GHz
Sustained clock2.9 GHz2.3 GHz
Processor featuresIntel AVX; Intel AVX2; Intel TurboIntel AVX; Intel AVX2; Intel Turbo
BurstableNoNo
ECU13297
Memory1 of 1 differc4.8xlarger4.8xlarge
Memory (GiB)60244
Networking3 of 8 differc4.8xlarger4.8xlarge
Network10 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Network baseline10 Gbps12 Gbps
Network peak10 Gbps12 Gbps
Enhanced networkingNoYes (ENA)
EFANoNo
IPv6YesYes
Max network interfaces88
IPv4 addresses per interface3030
Storage7 of 11 differc4.8xlarger4.8xlarge
StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS optimizedYesYes
EBS over NVMeNoNo
EBS throughput4000 Mbps6000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth4,000 Mbps7,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth4,000 Mbps7,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput500 MB/s875 MB/s
EBS max throughput500 MB/s875 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS32,00037,500
EBS max IOPS32,00037,500
Max EBS volumes4040
Instance details3 of 10 differc4.8xlarger4.8xlarge
Familyc4r4
CategoryCompute optimizedMemory optimized
Current generationYesYes
Normalization factor6464
Bare metalNoNo
HypervisorXenXen
Placement groupsCluster, Partition, SpreadCluster, Partition, Spread
HibernationYesNo
Nitro EnclavesNoNo
Boot modesLegacy BIOSLegacy BIOS

On-demand prices by region

Cheapest for c4.8xlarge first. Linux, USD per hour.

Regionc4.8xlarger4.8xlargeDifference
US East (N. Virginia)Used in summaryus-east-1$1.591$2.128▲ 34%
US East (Ohio)us-east-2$1.591$2.128▲ 34%
US West (Oregon)us-west-2$1.591$2.128▲ 34%
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)ap-south-1$1.60$2.192▲ 37%
Canada (Central)ca-central-1$1.75$2.336▲ 33%
EU (Ireland)eu-west-1$1.811$2.371▲ 31%
Asia Pacific (Seoul)ap-northeast-2$1.815$2.56▲ 41%
EU (Frankfurt)eu-central-1$1.817$2.561▲ 41%
Asia Pacific (Singapore)ap-southeast-1$1.848$2.56▲ 39%
EU (London)eu-west-2$1.902$2.496▲ 31%
AWS GovCloud (US-West)us-gov-west-1$1.915$2.554▲ 33%
US West (N. California)us-west-1$1.993$2.371▲ 19%
Asia Pacific (Osaka)ap-northeast-3$2.016$2.56▲ 27%
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)ap-northeast-1$2.016$2.56▲ 27%
Asia Pacific (Sydney)ap-southeast-2$2.085$2.554▲ 22%
South America (Sao Paulo)sa-east-1$2.47$4.48▲ 81%

Keep exploring

Each type’s own page, and how it compares with others.

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Compare r4.8xlarge with

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AWS EC2 Linux prices in USD. Monthly figures use 730 hours. Prices last updated 12 Nov 2026.