c3.xlarge vs r7a.xlarge
| c3.xlarge | r7a.xlarge |
| Compute optimized | Memory optimized |
| 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 | High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps. r – RAM / memory optimized 7 – Generation a – AMD processor xlarge – Size |
| 4 | 4 |
| 7.5 GiB | 32 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge) | AMD EPYC 9R14 Processor |
| 2.8 GHz | 3.7 GHz |
| 2 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| c3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarge | r7a.12xlarge, r7a.16xlarge, r7a.24xlarge, r7a.2xlarge, r7a.32xlarge, r7a.48xlarge, r7a.4xlarge, r7a.8xlarge, r7a.large, r7a.medium, r7a.metal-48xl, r7a.xlarge |
| c1.xlarge, c3.xlarge, c4.xlarge, c5.xlarge, c6i.xlarge, c7i.xlarge, c8i.xlarge | r5a.xlarge, r6a.xlarge, r7a.xlarge, r8a.xlarge |
| r7g.xlarge, r7gd.xlarge, r7i.xlarge, r7iz.xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| 14 | |
| 2 x 40 SSD | EBS only |
| supported | default |
| supported | supported |
| unsupported | required |
| up to 10000 MBps | |
| 500 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| 62.5 Mbps | 156.25 Mbps |
| 4000 IOPS | 6000 IOPS |
| 4000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 500 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 62.5 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Moderate | Up to 12500 Megabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| unsupported | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.32x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c3.xlarge | r7a.xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2) | 0.2300 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.2390 | 0.3140 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.2390 | 0.3236 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2520 | 0.3405 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2550 | 0.3405 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2580 | 0.3671 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2650 | 0.3671 |
| 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 | 0.3043 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.2100 | 0.3043 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.2100 | 0.3043 |