c3.xlarge vs d2.xlarge

Instance Typec3.xlarged2.xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedStorage 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
xlarge – Size
Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehousing, MapReduce/Hadoop computing, distributed/file network systems, and log/data-processing applications.

d – Disk / storage optimized
2 – Generation
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory7.5 GiB30.5 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarged2.2xlarge, d2.4xlarge, d2.8xlarge, d2.xlarge
Generationsc1.xlarge, c3.xlarge, c4.xlarge, c5.xlarge, c6i.xlarge, c7i.xlarge, c8i.xlarged2.xlarge, d3.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units1414
Instance Storage2 x 40 SSD3 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth500 Mbps750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput62.5 Mbps93.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance4000 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth500 Mbps750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput62.5 Mbps93.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateModerate
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.19x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.xlarge
d2.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)0.2300n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.23900.6980
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.8270
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.8280
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.8280
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.8440
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.8440
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.8440
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.8700
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.8700
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.8750
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.9570
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23900.7350
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.25200.7590
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.25500.7720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25800.7720
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.26500.7720
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.26500.7810
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.32500.7940
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.8090
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.6900
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.21000.6900
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.21000.6900
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