c3.4xlarge vs m8idn.4xlarge

Instance Typec3.4xlargem8idn.4xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedGeneral purpose
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
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory30 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlargem8idn.12xlarge, m8idn.16xlarge, m8idn.24xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge, m8idn.32xlarge, m8idn.48xlarge, m8idn.4xlarge, m8idn.8xlarge, m8idn.96xlarge, m8idn.large, m8idn.metal-48xl, m8idn.metal-96xl, m8idn.xlarge
Generationsc3.4xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c6i.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarge, c8i.4xlargem6idn.4xlarge, m8idn.4xlarge
Variantsm8a.4xlarge, m8g.4xlarge, m8gb.4xlarge, m8gd.4xlarge, m8gn.4xlarge, m8i-flex.4xlarge, m8i.4xlarge, m8ib.4xlarge, m8id.4xlarge, m8idb.4xlarge, m8in.4xlarge, m8ine.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units55
Instance Storage2 x 160 SSD1 x 950 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput250 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance16000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 50 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.66x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.4xlarge
m8idn.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)0.9190n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.95601.6722
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.95601.7073
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.00801.9656
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.0210n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.0320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.0580n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.0580n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.3000n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a1.5275
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.84001.5275
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.84001.5275
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