c4.large vs i3.large

Instance Typec4.largei3.large
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
large – 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
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory3.75 GiB15.25 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.large, c4.large, c5.large, c6i.large, c7i.large, c8i.largei2.large, i3.large, i4i.large, i7i.large
Variantsi3en.large
SageMakerml.c4.large
OpenSearchc4.large.searchi3.large.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units88
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 475 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedsupported
Dedicated Throughput500 MBps425 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth500 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput62.5 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance4000 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth500 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput62.5 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1010
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
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c4.large
i3.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.10000.1630
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.12600.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.12600.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.13000.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.15500.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.1860
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.11000.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.2060
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.2490
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.11300.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.11400.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.11400.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.11500.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.11900.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.12000.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.12400.1810
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.10000.1560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.10000.1560
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.1560
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