c3.4xlarge vs r3.4xlarge

Instance Typec3.4xlarger3.4xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedMemory 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
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
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
3 – Generation
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory30 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsc3.4xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c6i.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarge, c8i.4xlarger3.4xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r6i.4xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge
RDSdb.r3.4xlarge
OpenSearchr3.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units5552
Instance Storage2 x 160 SSD1 x 320 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupportedsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2000 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput250 Mbps250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2000 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput250 Mbps250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.61x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.4xlarge
r3.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)0.9190n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.95601.4820
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.7990
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.95601.4820
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.00801.5160
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.02101.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.03201.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.05801.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.05801.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.30001.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.6000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a1.3280
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.84001.3300
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.84001.3300
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