c4.2xlarge vs i3.2xlarge

Instance Typec4.2xlargei3.2xlarge
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
4 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
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
3 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory15 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.9 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc4.2xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c4.large, c4.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsc3.2xlarge, c4.2xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c6i.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c8i.2xlargei2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsi3en.2xlarge
SageMakerml.c4.2xlarge
OpenSearchc4.2xlarge.searchi3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units3131
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedsupported
Dedicated Throughput1000 MBps1750 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance8000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1000 Mbps1700 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput125 Mbps212.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.57x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
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On Demand
Geography
Region
c4.2xlarge
i3.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40000.6520
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.50400.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.50400.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.52200.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.61800.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.7320
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.7440
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.7480
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.43800.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.7570
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.8180
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.8200
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.8240
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.9960
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.45300.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.45400.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.45400.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.46200.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.47600.7080
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.47900.7220
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.49800.7240
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.39800.6240
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.39800.6240
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.39800.6240
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