c5.large vs i3.large

Instance Typec5.largei3.large
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedStorage 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
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
Memory4 GiB15.25 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8124MIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed3.4 GHz2.3 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.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
Variantsc5a.large, c5ad.large, c5d.large, c5n.largei3en.large
SageMakerml.c5.large
OpenSearchc5.large.searchi3.large.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units108
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 475 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 2250 MBps425 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth650 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput81.25 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.83x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
c5.large
i3.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.0850n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.0850n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.08500.1630
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.09800.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.09800.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.10100.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.10100.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.10100.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.10100.1860
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.10200.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.10200.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.10600.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.10600.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.08500.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.10600.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.10700.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.10700.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.10700.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.10800.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.11100.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.11100.2060
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.11400.2490
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.1310n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.09100.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.09300.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.09300.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.09600.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.09600.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.09600.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.09700.1810
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.1560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.08500.1560
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.1560
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