t3.small vs c4.large

Instance Typet3.smallc4.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
3 – Generation
small – Size
Obsolete. 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
vCPUs22
Memory2 GiB3.75 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Skylake E5 2686 v5Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.9 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest3.2xlarge, t3.large, t3.medium, t3.micro, t3.nano, t3.small, t3.xlargec4.2xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c4.8xlarge, c4.large, c4.xlarge
Generationst2.small, t3.smallc3.large, c4.large, c5.large, c6i.large, c7i.large, c8i.large
Variantst3a.small
SageMakerml.t3.smallml.c4.large
RDSdb.t3.small
OpenSearcht3.small.searchc4.large.search
ElastiCachecache.t3.small
Free Tieryesno
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units8
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 2085 MBps500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth174 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput21.75 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance1000 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance11800 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2085 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput260.625 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 5 GigabitModerate
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface410
IPv6 Addresses per Interface410
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x4.73x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t3.small
c4.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a0.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.02160.1000
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.02360.1260
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.02380.1260
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.02380.1300
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.02400.1550
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.0240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.0240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.0244n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.0244n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.0245n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.0248n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.02180.1100
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.0251n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.0251n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.0260n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.0264n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.0264n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.0264n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.0264n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.0264n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.0271n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.0272n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.02240.1130
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.0272n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.0277n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.0292n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.0336n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.02240.1140
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.02280.1140
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.02280.1150
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.02320.1190
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.02320.1200
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.02360.1240
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.02080.1000
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.02080.1000
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.0208n/a
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