c3.4xlarge vs r5ad.4xlarge

Instance Typec3.4xlarger5ad.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
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
d – Instance store volume
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory30 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)AMD EPYC 7571
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.2 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarger5ad.12xlarge, r5ad.16xlarge, r5ad.24xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5ad.4xlarge, r5ad.8xlarge, r5ad.large, r5ad.xlarge
Generationsc3.4xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c6i.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarge, c8i.4xlarge
Variantsr5.4xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5b.4xlarge, r5d.4xlarge, r5dn.4xlarge, r5n.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units55
Instance Storage2 x 160 SSD2 x 300 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2000 Mbps2880 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput250 Mbps360 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2000 Mbps2880 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput250 Mbps360 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.19x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.4xlarge
r5ad.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a0.6640
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)0.9190n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.95601.0480
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.2720
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.2720
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.2720
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.6640
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.95601.1520
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.00801.1680
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.02101.1840
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.03201.2240
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.05801.2320
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.05801.2640
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.30001.2640
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.2640
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a1.0480
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.84001.0480
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.8400n/a
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