
AWS Graviton-powered EC2 instances with Amazon EBS gp3 storage provide cost-effective and performant configurations for running Ethereum nodes, with c7g and m7g instance types recommended for sync and RPC node workloads respectively.


<div><p>This article provides recommendations for running Ethereum nodes on AWS, based on performance testing of compute and storage options.</p><ul><li>AWS Graviton 3 (c7g.2xlarge) outperforms Graviton 2 across Geth and Erigon clients</li><li>c7g offers better performance-per-cost despite 6% higher price than c6g</li><li>Amazon EBS gp3 with 16,000 IOPS is cost-effective for most node types</li><li>EBS io2 provides consistent performance but no noticeable difference for typical workloads</li><li>FSx for OpenZFS enables fast volume provisioning but incompatible with Erigon</li><li>Sync nodes: r6g.2xlarge or r6g.4xlarge with gp3 storage recommended</li><li>RPC nodes: m7g.4xlarge with 16,000 IOPS gp3 handles 30+ requests per second</li><li>Erigon can replace two Geth nodes with similar performance on mixed workloads</li></ul><p>AWS Graviton-based instances provide optimal cost-effectiveness for Ethereum node infrastructure, with configuration recommendations varying by node role.</p></div>


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