c3.4xlarge vs i3.4xlarge

Instance Typec3.4xlargei3.4xlarge
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
4xlarge – 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
3 – Generation
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory30 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsc3.4xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c6i.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarge, c8i.4xlargei2.4xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i7i.4xlarge
OpenSearchi3.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units5558
Instance Storage2 x 160 SSD2 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedsupported
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2000 Mbps3500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput250 Mbps437.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2000 Mbps3500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput250 Mbps437.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.47x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
c3.4xlarge
i3.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)0.9190n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.95601.3040
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.4640
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.4880
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a1.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a1.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a1.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.95601.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a1.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a1.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a1.5140
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a1.5140
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a1.6370
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a1.6400
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a1.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a1.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.00801.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.02101.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.03201.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.05801.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.05801.4160
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.30001.4450
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.4480
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a1.2480
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.84001.2480
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.84001.2480
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