c4.2xlarge vs x2iedn.2xlarge

Instance Typec4.2xlargex2iedn.2xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedMemory 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
In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
2 – Generation
i – Intel processor
e – Extra storage or memory
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory15 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake)
Clock Speed2.9 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc4.2xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c4.large, c4.xlargex2iedn.16xlarge, x2iedn.24xlarge, x2iedn.2xlarge, x2iedn.32xlarge, x2iedn.4xlarge, x2iedn.8xlarge, x2iedn.metal, x2iedn.xlarge
Generationsc3.2xlarge, c4.2xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c6i.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarge
Variantsx2gd.2xlarge, x2iezn.2xlarge
SageMakerml.c4.2xlarge
RDSdb.x2iedn.2xlarge
OpenSearchc4.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 237 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput1000 MBpsup to 20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1000 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput125 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8000 IOPS16250 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance8000 IOPS65000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1000 Mbps20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput125 Mbps2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x4.61x

Regional Prices

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Per Hour
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Geography
Region
c4.2xlarge
x2iedn.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40001.7203
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.50402.1008
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.50402.1008
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.52202.1675
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.61802.1759
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.1759
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.3343
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.3810
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.4176
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.4176
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.4176
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.43801.7203
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a2.4176
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a2.4176
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a2.4178
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a2.5677
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a3.2513
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.45301.8340
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.45401.9014
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.45402.0008
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.46202.0008
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.47602.0008
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.47902.0008
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.49802.1001
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.39801.6673
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.39801.6673
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.39801.6673
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