c9g.12xlarge

Analysis

The c9g.12xlarge is a compute optimized instance in the c9g series with 48 vCPUs and 96 GiB of memory on AWS Graviton5 (up to 3.3 GHz), which makes it compute-heavy at 2 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Running it in Ohio instead of Tokyo saves $393 a month per instance: $2.08/hour against $2.62/hour, a 26% spread. It is not offered in Canada Central, São Paulo, Ireland, London, Mumbai and Sydney, so plan around that if you need a presence there.

It is the cheapest of the 2 processor variants AWS sells at this size and generation. The c9gd.12xlarge on AWS Graviton5 costs 23% more, and no others also sit above it.

Compared with the previous generation, it costs 9.0% more than the c8g.12xlarge on AWS Graviton4 ($126 more a month per instance), in exchange for the newer processor.

On demand it costs $2.09/hour in US East (N. Virginia), $1,523 a month if left running, which puts it mid-table for compute optimized types at the 34th percentile per vCPU ($0.0435 per vCPU-hour) and the 39th percentile per GiB ($0.0217 per GiB-hour).

Looking beyond its own line, 11 of 30 current types with 48 vCPUs and similar memory are cheaper. The cheapest of those is the c6g.12xlarge on AWS Graviton2 at $1.63/hour.