t3.medium vs c7a.large

Instance Typet3.mediumc7a.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
medium – Size
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
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory4 GiB4 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Skylake E5 2686 v5AMD EPYC 9R14 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz3.7 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest3.2xlarge, t3.large, t3.medium, t3.micro, t3.nano, t3.small, t3.xlargec7a.12xlarge, c7a.16xlarge, c7a.24xlarge, c7a.2xlarge, c7a.32xlarge, c7a.48xlarge, c7a.4xlarge, c7a.8xlarge, c7a.large, c7a.medium, c7a.metal-48xl, c7a.xlarge
Generationst2.medium, t3.medium, t8i.mediumc5a.large, c6a.large, c7a.large, c8a.large
Variantst3a.mediumc7g.large, c7gd.large, c7gn.large, c7i-flex.large, c7i.large
SageMakerml.t3.medium
RDSdb.t3.medium
DocumentDBdb.t3.medium
OpenSearcht3.medium.search
ElastiCachecache.t3.medium
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2085 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth347 Mbps650 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput43.375 Mbps81.25 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance2000 IOPS3600 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance11800 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2085 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput260.625 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 5 GigabitUp to 12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface610
IPv6 Addresses per Interface610
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.31x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
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On Demand
Geography
Region
t3.medium
c7a.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.04320.1099
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.0472n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.0475n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.0475n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.0479n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.0479n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.0480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.0488n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.0488n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.0490n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.0496n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.04370.1101
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.0502n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.0502n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.0520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.0528n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.0528n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.0528n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.0528n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.0528n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.0542n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.0544n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.04480.1101
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.0544n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.0554n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.0584n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.0672n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.04480.1171
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.04560.1183
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.04560.1220
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.04640.1280
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.04640.1292
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.0472n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.04160.1026
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.04160.1026
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.04160.1026
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