c3.xlarge vs i2.xlarge

Instance Typec3.xlargei2.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
Obsolete. 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
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory7.5 GiB30.5 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsc1.xlarge, c3.xlarge, c4.xlarge, c5.xlarge, c6i.xlarge, c7i.xlarge, c8i.xlargei2.xlarge, i3.xlarge, i4i.xlarge, i7i.xlarge
OpenSearchi2.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units1414
Instance Storage2 x 40 SSD1 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedsupportedsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth500 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput62.5 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance4000 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth500 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput62.5 Mbps62.5 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 Diff1.00x3.83x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c3.xlarge
i2.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)0.2300n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.23900.9380
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23900.9380
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.25200.9670
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.25501.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25801.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.26501.0130
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.26501.0180
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.32501.0180
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.0230
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.8530
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.21000.8530
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.21000.8530
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