c3.xlarge vs m5dn.xlarge
| c3.xlarge | m5dn.xlarge |
| Compute optimized | General purpose |
| 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 xlarge – Size | Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 5 – Generation d – Instance store volume n – Network and EBS optimized xlarge – Size |
| 4 | 4 |
| 7.5 GiB | 16 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge) | Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake) |
| 2.8 GHz | 3.1 GHz |
| 2 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| c3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarge | m5dn.12xlarge, m5dn.16xlarge, m5dn.24xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5dn.4xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge, m5dn.large, m5dn.metal, m5dn.xlarge |
| c1.xlarge, c3.xlarge, c4.xlarge, c5.xlarge, c6i.xlarge, c7i.xlarge, c8i.xlarge | m5dn.xlarge, m6idn.xlarge, m8idn.xlarge |
| m5.xlarge, m5a.xlarge, m5ad.xlarge, m5d.xlarge, m5n.xlarge, m5zn.xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| 14 | |
| 2 x 40 SSD | 1 x 150 NVMe SSD |
| supported | default |
| supported | supported |
| unsupported | required |
| up to 3500 MBps | |
| 500 Mbps | 1150 Mbps |
| 62.5 Mbps | 143.75 Mbps |
| 4000 IOPS | 6000 IOPS |
| 4000 IOPS | 18750 IOPS |
| 500 Mbps | 4750 Mbps |
| 62.5 Mbps | 593.75 Mbps |
| Moderate | Up to 25 Gigabit |
| yes | no |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| unsupported | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.25x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c3.xlarge | m5dn.xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2) | 0.2300 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.2390 | 0.3040 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.2390 | 0.3240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2520 | 0.3340 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2550 | 0.3420 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2580 | 0.3420 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2650 | 0.3500 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.2650 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.3250 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | n/a | 0.2720 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.2100 | 0.2720 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.2100 | 0.2720 |