c4.large vs r4.large

Instance Typec4.larger4.large
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
large – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
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
4 – 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.xlarger4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarge
Generationsc3.large, c4.large, c5.large, c6i.large, c7i.large, c8i.larger3.large, r4.large, r5.large, r6i.large, r7i.large, r8i.large
SageMakerml.c4.large
RDSdb.r4.large
DocumentDBdb.r4.large
OpenSearchc4.large.searchr4.large.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units88
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Dedicated Throughput500 MBps400 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 Diff1.00x1.36x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c4.large
r4.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.10000.1370
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.12600.1600
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.12600.1600
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.13000.1600
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.15500.1601
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.2800
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.11000.1460
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.11300.1482
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.11400.1482
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.11400.1560
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.11500.1560
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.11900.1596
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.12000.1596
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.12400.1600
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.10000.1330
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.10000.1330
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.1330
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