c5.2xlarge vs r3.2xlarge

Instance Typec5.2xlarger3.2xlarge
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedMemory optimized
DetailsHigh-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
5 – Generation
2xlarge – 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
3 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8124MIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed3.4 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc5.12xlarge, c5.18xlarge, c5.24xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c5.9xlarge, c5.large, c5.metal, c5.xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsc3.2xlarge, c4.2xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c6i.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c8i.2xlarger3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
Variantsc5a.2xlarge, c5ad.2xlarge, c5d.2xlarge, c5n.2xlarge
SageMakerml.c5.2xlarge
RDSdb.r3.2xlarge
OpenSearchc5.2xlarge.searchr3.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r3.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units3926
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 160 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 2250 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2300 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput287.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.00x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
c5.2xlarge
r3.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.3400n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.3400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.34000.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.39201.3990
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.3920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.4030n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.4040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.4040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.4040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.4080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.4080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.4220n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.4220n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.34000.7410
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.4240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.4270n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.4280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.4280n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.4320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.4440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.4440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.4560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.5240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.36400.7580
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.37200.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.37200.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.38400.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.38400.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.38400.7980
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.38800.8000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.6640
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.34000.6650
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.6650
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