c7gn.metal vs i3.metal

Instance Typec7gn.metali3.metal
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
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
metal – Bare metal
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
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs6464
Memory128 GiB488 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64n/a
ProcessorAWS Graviton3 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.6 GHz
Threads Per Core10
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc7gn.12xlarge, c7gn.16xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c7gn.large, c7gn.medium, c7gn.metal, c7gn.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsc6gn.metal, c7gn.metali3.metal, i4i.metal
Variantsc7g.metal, c7gd.metali3en.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201
Instance StorageEBS only8 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput40000 MBps14000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth33333 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput4166.625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance133333 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth40000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput5000 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance200 Gigabit20 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces15
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportyesno
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.34x

Regional Prices

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c7gn.metal
i3.metal
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.51205.2160
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a5.8560
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a5.8560
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a5.9520
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a5.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a5.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a6.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a6.0160
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a6.0540
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a6.5600
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a6.5920
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)4.73605.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a7.9680
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)5.03685.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a5.5040
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a5.6640
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a5.7920
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a5.7920
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a5.7920
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a5.8560
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)3.99364.9920
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.99364.9920
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)3.99364.9920
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