c3.2xlarge vs i4g.2xlarge

Instance Typec3.2xlargei4g.2xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedStorage optimized
DetailsObsolete. 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
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory15 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlargei4g.16xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge, i4g.large, i4g.xlarge
Generationsc3.2xlarge, c4.2xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c6i.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c8i.2xlargei4g.2xlarge, i8g.2xlarge
Variantsi4i.2xlarge
OpenSearchi4g.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units28
Instance Storage2 x 80 SSD1 x 1875 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance8000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput125 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 12 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.42x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.2xlarge
i4g.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)0.4600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.47800.6808
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.47800.6808
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.50400.7405
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.51100.7405
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51600.9864
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.5290n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.5290n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.6500n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.6178
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.42000.6178
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.42000.6178
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