t2.medium vs c3.large

Instance Typet2.mediumc3.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
2 – Generation
medium – 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
Memory4 GiB3.75 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon FamilyIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest2.2xlarge, t2.large, t2.medium, t2.micro, t2.nano, t2.small, t2.xlargec3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarge
Generationst2.medium, t3.mediumc3.large, c4.large, c5.large, c6i.large, c7i.large, c8i.large
SageMakerml.t2.medium
RDSdb.t2.medium
OpenSearcht2.medium.search
ElastiCachecache.t2.medium
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units7
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 16 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupportedunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Networking
Networking PerformanceLow to ModerateModerate
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface610
IPv6 Addresses per Interface610
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.29x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t2.medium
c3.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)n/a0.1150
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.04960.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.0584n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.0584n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.0608n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.0608n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.0744n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.05000.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.05120.1260
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.05200.1280
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.05280.1290
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.05360.1320
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.05440.1320
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.05520.1630
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.0576n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.0464n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.04640.1050
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.04640.1050
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