c4.4xlarge vs r5a.4xlarge

Instance Typec4.4xlarger5a.4xlarge
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
4xlarge – 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
5 – Generation
a – AMD processor
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory30 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)AMD EPYC 7571
Clock Speed2.9 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc4.2xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c4.large, c4.xlarger5a.12xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5a.24xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5a.large, r5a.xlarge
Generationsc3.4xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c6i.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarge, c8i.4xlarger5a.4xlarge, r6a.4xlarge, r7a.4xlarge, r8a.4xlarge
Variantsr5.4xlarge, r5ad.4xlarge, r5b.4xlarge, r5d.4xlarge, r5dn.4xlarge, r5n.4xlarge
SageMakerml.c4.4xlarge
OpenSearchc4.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units62
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput2000 MBpsup to 2120 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2000 Mbps2880 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput250 Mbps360 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2000 Mbps2880 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput250 Mbps360 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceHighUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.11x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c4.4xlarge
r5a.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a0.5720
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.80000.9040
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.00801.0880
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.00801.0880
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.04201.0880
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.23501.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.4480
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.87600.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.90501.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.90701.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.90901.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.92401.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.95001.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.95801.0880
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.99701.0880
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.79600.9040
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.79600.9040
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.7960n/a
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