c3.2xlarge vs r5a.2xlarge
| c3.2xlarge | r5a.2xlarge |
| Compute optimized | Memory optimized |
| 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 | High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps. r – RAM / memory optimized 5 – Generation a – AMD processor 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 15 GiB | 64 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge) | AMD EPYC 7571 |
| 2.8 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 2 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| c3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarge | r5a.12xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5a.24xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5a.large, r5a.xlarge |
| c3.2xlarge, c4.2xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c6i.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge | r5a.2xlarge, r6a.2xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r8a.2xlarge |
| r5.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| 28 | |
| 2 x 80 SSD | EBS only |
| supported | default |
| supported | supported |
| unsupported | required |
| up to 2120 MBps | |
| 1000 Mbps | 1580 Mbps |
| 125 Mbps | 197.5 Mbps |
| 8000 IOPS | 8333 IOPS |
| 8000 IOPS | 16000 IOPS |
| 1000 Mbps | 2880 Mbps |
| 125 Mbps | 360 Mbps |
| High | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| unsupported | required |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.03x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c3.2xlarge | r5a.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | n/a | 0.2860 |
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2) | 0.4600 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.4780 | 0.4520 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.5440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.5440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.5440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.5480 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 0.5480 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 0.7240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4780 | 0.4960 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.5040 | 0.5040 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.5110 | 0.5080 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.5160 | 0.5320 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.5290 | 0.5320 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.5290 | 0.5320 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.6500 | 0.5440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.5440 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | n/a | 0.4520 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4200 | 0.4520 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.4200 | n/a |