c7gn.4xlarge vs r3.4xlarge

Instance Typec7gn.4xlarger3.4xlarge
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
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
4xlarge – 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
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.6 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc7gn.12xlarge, c7gn.16xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c7gn.large, c7gn.medium, c7gn.metal, c7gn.xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsc6gn.4xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c8gn.4xlarger3.4xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r6i.4xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge
Variantsc7a.4xlarge, c7g.4xlarge, c7gd.4xlarge, c7i-flex.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarge
RDSdb.r3.4xlarge
OpenSearchr3.4xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.c7gn.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units52
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 320 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth8333 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1041.625 Mbps250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance33333 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance50 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.47x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
c7gn.4xlarge
r3.4xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.12801.4820
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.7990
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.18401.4820
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.25921.5160
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a1.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a1.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a1.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a1.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a1.5960
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.6000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.99841.3280
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.99841.3300
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.99841.3300
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