The c8g.2xlarge is a compute optimised instance in the c8g family with 8 vCPU and 16 GiB of memory on AWS Graviton4 (Arm). It costs $232.90 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 31 regions.
The list price has not changed in this window. Spot moves with demand and is read every few minutes.
First year, 3 instances
Spot saves $5,333 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 16 h a day.
Bars are on-demand per hour; the teal mark is spot. Price per vCPU is the same at every size, so pick the size that fits.
23.1g CO₂ an hour in us-east-1
16.9 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 116× the cleanest.
| $157.62 | $87.02 | 45% | 51 | |
| $157.62 | $15.77 | 90% | 51 | |
| $227.41 | $66.43 | 71% | 9 | |
| $227.41 | $71.25 | 69% | 40 | |
| $232.08 | $51.39 | 78% | 34 | |
| $232.90 | $84.75 | 64% | 23 | |
| $232.90 | $88.26 | 62% | 15 | |
| $248.49 | $46.36 | 81% | 1 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/c8g.2xlarge?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