c3.4xlarge vs is4gen.4xlarge

Instance Typec3.4xlargeis4gen.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.

is – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to six ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory30 GiB96 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.xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Generationsc3.4xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c6i.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarge, c8i.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units55
Instance Storage2 x 160 SSD2 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance16000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHigh25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.59x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.4xlarge
is4gen.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)0.9190n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.95602.5500
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.95602.5500
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.00802.6200
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.02102.6826
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.03202.6826
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.05802.7132
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.05802.7540
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.30002.7642
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.7642
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a2.3052
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.84002.3052
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.84002.3052
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