c3.4xlarge vs r5b.4xlarge
| c3.4xlarge | r5b.4xlarge |
| Compute optimized | Memory optimized |
| Obsolete. 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 b – EBS optimized 4xlarge – Size |
| 16 | 16 |
| 30 GiB | 128 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge) | Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake) |
| 2.8 GHz | 3.1 GHz |
| 2 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| c3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarge | r5b.12xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5b.24xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5b.4xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5b.large, r5b.metal, r5b.xlarge |
| c3.4xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c6i.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarge, c8i.4xlarge | r5b.4xlarge, r8ib.4xlarge |
| r5.4xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5ad.4xlarge, r5d.4xlarge, r5dn.4xlarge, r5n.4xlarge | |
| db.r5b.4xlarge, db.r5b.4xlarge.tpc2.mem2x, db.r5b.4xlarge.tpc2.mem3x, db.r5b.4xlarge.tpc2.mem4x | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| 55 | |
| 2 x 160 SSD | EBS only |
| supported | default |
| supported | supported |
| unsupported | required |
| 10240 MBps | |
| 2000 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 250 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| 16000 IOPS | 43333 IOPS |
| 16000 IOPS | 43333 IOPS |
| 2000 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 250 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| High | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 30 |
| 30 | 30 |
| yes | yes |
| unsupported | required |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.38x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c3.4xlarge | r5b.4xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2) | 0.9190 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.9560 | 1.2635 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 1.4480 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 1.8960 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.9560 | 1.3040 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 1.0080 | 1.3360 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 1.0210 | 1.4000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 1.0320 | 1.4000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 1.0580 | 1.4240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 1.0580 | 1.4240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 1.3000 | 1.4240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 1.4480 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | n/a | 1.1920 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.8400 | 1.1920 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.8400 | 1.1920 |