The c3.8xlarge is a compute optimised instance in the c3 family with 32 vCPU and 60 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge). It costs $1,226.40 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 10 regions.
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First year, 3 instances
Spot saves $31,794 a year
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not. A 1-yr reservation is cheaper once these run more than 17 h a day.
1,463.9g CO₂ an hour in us-east-1
1,068.6 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 11× the cleanest.
| $1,226.40 | $343.25 | 72% | 1,464 | |
| $1,226.40 | $443.18 | 64% | 929 | |
| $1,342.47 | — | 2,270 | ||
| $1,395.76 | $555.02 | 60% | 1,435 | |
| $1,395.76 | $451.36 | 68% | 906 | |
| $1,491.39 | $515.09 | 65% | 2,298 | |
| $1,506.72 | $549.62 | 64% | 1,535 | |
| $1,545.41 | $547.79 | 65% | 1,855 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/c3.8xlarge?region=us-east-1"
List prices from AWS in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. AWS pricing page