c4.8xlarge by Amazon Web Services
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(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | aws |
Name | c4.8xlarge |
Description | Compute optimized Gen4 8xlarge |
Family | c4 |
Hw Virt | |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-08-10T13:31:55.642093 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Ohio (US) / us-east-2 | 0.456467 USD/h | 1.591 USD/h |
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1 | 0.606433 USD/h | 1.591 USD/h |
Oregon (US) / us-west-2 | 0.586567 USD/h | 1.591 USD/h |
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1 | 0.41345 USD/h | 1.6 USD/h |
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1 | 0.547 USD/h | 1.75 USD/h |
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1 | 0.729433 USD/h | 1.811 USD/h |
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2 | 0.49585 USD/h | 1.815 USD/h |
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1 | 0.705067 USD/h | 1.817 USD/h |
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1 | 0.71 USD/h | 1.848 USD/h |
London (GB) / eu-west-2 | 0.619267 USD/h | 1.902 USD/h |
California (US) / us-west-1 | 0.75285 USD/h | 1.993 USD/h |
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1 | 0.657433 USD/h | 2.016 USD/h |
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3 | 0.9133 USD/h | 2.016 USD/h |
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2 | 0.8373 USD/h | 2.085 USD/h |
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1 | 0.34335 USD/h | 2.47 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 36 |
Hypervisor | xen |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 18 |
CPU Speed | 2.9 GHz |
CPU Architecture | x86_64 |
CPU Manufacturer | Intel |
CPU Family | Xeon |
CPU Model | E5-2666 v3 |
CPU L1D Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1D Cache Total | 576 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 576 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 256 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 5 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache | 25 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache Total | 50 MiB |
CPU Flags | fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, est, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, xsaveopt, ida |
Ecpus | 23.7 |
Scalability | 131.67 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 60 GiB |
Memory Amount Actual | 60 GiB |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPU Memory Min | 0 MiB |
GPU Memory Total | 0 MiB |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 0 GB |
Storages |
| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Network Speed Baseline | 10 Gbps |
Network Speed Max | 10 Gbps |
Network Storage Speed Baseline | 4 Gbps |
Network Storage Speed Max | 4 Gbps |
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Server Description
A dedicated 36-vCPU compute-optimized instance designed for high-throughput CPU workloads, software compilation, and multi-threaded data processing.
Amazon Web Services c4.8xlarge is a compute-optimized instance featuring 36 dedicated vCPUs from an Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 processor running at 2.9 GHz. Built on the Xen hypervisor, it provides 60.0 GB of system memory, or 1.67 GB per core, but lacks local storage and GPU hardware. Network performance is anchored by a 10 Gbps baseline bandwidth. Benchmark data shows average performance across standard compute tasks, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 10598.0 and a Redis SET throughput of 30.6 million operations per second. However, the instance exhibits weak performance in LLM text generation, making it less suitable for modern AI workloads. It is highly effective for traditional CPU-intensive tasks, including software compilation, static web serving, and multi-threaded data decompression.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Geekbench Multi-Core
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 30959 |
Compression | 507180 |
Encryption | 15613 |
Extended Instructions | 25090 |
Floating Point Maths | 70323 |
Integer Maths | 113654 |
Physics | 2445 |
Prime Numbers | 143 |
Single Threaded | 2113 |
String Sorting | 58893 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 2611 |
Database Operations | 12382 |
Memory Latency | 54 |
Memory Read Cached | 24486 |
Memory Read Uncached | 10706 |
Memory Write | 10165 |
Stress-ng Raw Scores
Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance
LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing
LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation
Static Web Server
Redis
Alternatives
Servers of the Same Family
| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| c4.large | 2 | 4 GiB | 0 |
| c4.xlarge | 4 | 8 GiB | 0 |
| c4.2xlarge | 8 | 15 GiB | 0 |
| c4.4xlarge | 16 | 30 GiB | 0 |
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