t2.xlarge vs c3.xlarge

Instance Typet2.xlargec3.xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
2 – Generation
xlarge – Size
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
vCPUs44
Memory16 GiB7.5 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon FamilyIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest2.2xlarge, t2.large, t2.medium, t2.micro, t2.nano, t2.small, t2.xlargec3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge, c3.large, c3.xlarge
Generationst2.xlarge, t3.xlargec1.xlarge, c3.xlarge, c4.xlarge, c5.xlarge, c6i.xlarge, c7i.xlarge, c8i.xlarge
SageMakerml.t2.xlarge
RDSdb.t2.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units14
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 40 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupportedsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput62.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput62.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateModerate
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces34
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 Diff1.00x1.14x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t2.xlarge
c3.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)n/a0.2300
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.19840.2390
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.2336n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.2336n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.2432n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.2432n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.2976n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.20160.2390
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.20480.2520
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.21120.2550
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.21120.2580
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.21440.2650
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.21760.2650
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.22080.3250
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.2304n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.1856n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.18560.2100
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.18560.2100
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