c3.4xlarge vs r8idn.4xlarge

Instance Typec3.4xlarger8idn.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
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory30 GiB128 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.xlarger8idn.12xlarge, r8idn.16xlarge, r8idn.24xlarge, r8idn.2xlarge, r8idn.32xlarge, r8idn.48xlarge, r8idn.4xlarge, r8idn.8xlarge, r8idn.96xlarge, r8idn.large, r8idn.metal-48xl, r8idn.metal-96xl, r8idn.xlarge
Generationsc3.4xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c6i.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarge, c8i.4xlarger6idn.4xlarge, r8idn.4xlarge
Variantsr8a.4xlarge, r8g.4xlarge, r8gb.4xlarge, r8gd.4xlarge, r8gn.4xlarge, r8i-flex.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge, r8ib.4xlarge, r8id.4xlarge, r8idb.4xlarge, r8in.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 Diff1.00x2.05x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
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On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.4xlarge
r8idn.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)0.9190n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.95602.0891
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.95602.0891
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.00802.2352
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.02102.2801
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/a1.8758
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.84001.8758
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.84001.8758
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