i2.large vs c3.large

Instance Typei2.largec3.large
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedCompute optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
2 – Generation
large – Size
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
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory15 GiB3.75 GiB
CPU Architecturen/ax86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core02
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlargec3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarge
Generationsi2.large, i3.large, i4i.large, i7i.largec3.large, c4.large, c5.large, c6i.large, c7i.large, c8i.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units77
Instance Storage1 x 800 SSD2 x 16 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupported
Encryptionsupported
NVMeunsupported
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateModerate
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces3
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface10
IPv6 Addresses per Interface10
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price DiffInfinityx

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
i2.large
c3.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)n/a0.1150
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a0.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.1260
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.1280
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.1290
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.1320
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.1320
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.1630
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a0.1050
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.1050
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