a1.2xlarge vs c3.2xlarge

Instance Typea1.2xlargec3.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments.

a – ARM AWS Graviton Processor
1 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

c – Compute optimized
3 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB15 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargec3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarge
Generationsc3.2xlarge, c4.2xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c6i.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units28
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 80 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.21x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.2xlarge
c3.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2040n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)n/a0.4600
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20400.4780
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23040.4780
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.23280.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23520.5110
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25680.5160
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.26640.5290
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.5290
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.6500
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.2040n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.20400.4200
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.4200
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