c3.xlarge vs m5zn.xlarge
| c3.xlarge | m5zn.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 z – High performance 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 8252 |
| 2.8 GHz | 4.5 GHz |
| 2 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| c3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarge | m5zn.12xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge, m5zn.3xlarge, m5zn.6xlarge, m5zn.large, m5zn.metal, m5zn.xlarge |
| c1.xlarge, c3.xlarge, c4.xlarge, c5.xlarge, c6i.xlarge, c7i.xlarge, c8i.xlarge | |
| m5.xlarge, m5a.xlarge, m5ad.xlarge, m5d.xlarge, m5dn.xlarge, m5n.xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| 14 | |
| 2 x 40 SSD | EBS only |
| supported | default |
| supported | supported |
| unsupported | required |
| up to 3170 MBps | |
| 500 Mbps | 1564 Mbps |
| 62.5 Mbps | 195.5 Mbps |
| 4000 IOPS | 6667 IOPS |
| 4000 IOPS | 13333 IOPS |
| 500 Mbps | 3170 Mbps |
| 62.5 Mbps | 396.25 Mbps |
| Moderate | Up to 25 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| unsupported | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.57x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c3.xlarge | m5zn.xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2) | 0.2300 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.2390 | 0.3682 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.2390 | 0.3854 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2520 | 0.3957 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2550 | 0.4060 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2580 | 0.4130 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2650 | 0.4130 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.2650 | 0.4267 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.3250 | 0.5265 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | n/a | 0.3303 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.2100 | 0.3303 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.2100 | 0.3303 |