t3.xlarge vs c7i.xlarge
| t3.xlarge | c7i.xlarge |
| General purpose | Compute optimized |
| Websites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps. t – Burstable performance 3 – Generation xlarge – 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 i – Intel processor xlarge – Size |
| 4 | 4 |
| 16 GiB | 8 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Skylake E5 2686 v5 | Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) |
| 2.5 GHz | 3.2 GHz |
| 2 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| t3.2xlarge, t3.large, t3.medium, t3.micro, t3.nano, t3.small, t3.xlarge | c7i.12xlarge, c7i.16xlarge, c7i.24xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c7i.48xlarge, c7i.4xlarge, c7i.8xlarge, c7i.large, c7i.metal-24xl, c7i.metal-48xl, c7i.xlarge |
| t2.xlarge, t3.xlarge | c6i.xlarge, c7i.xlarge, c8i.xlarge |
| t3a.xlarge | c7a.xlarge, c7g.xlarge, c7gd.xlarge, c7gn.xlarge, c7i-flex.xlarge |
| ml.t3.xlarge | ml.c7i.xlarge |
| db.t3.xlarge | |
| c7i.xlarge.search | |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| yes | yes |
| EBS only | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 2780 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 695 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| 86.875 Mbps | 156.25 Mbps |
| 4000 IOPS | 6000 IOPS |
| 15700 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 2780 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 347.5 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 5 Gigabit | Up to 12500 Megabit |
| no | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.05x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t3.xlarge | c7i.xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5) | n/a | 0.1749 |
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | n/a | 0.1785 |
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7) | n/a | 0.1749 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1728 | 0.1785 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.1888 | 0.1953 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.1901 | 0.2011 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.1901 | 0.2016 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.1917 | 0.2022 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.1917 | 0.2037 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.1920 | 0.2058 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.1952 | 0.2058 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.1952 | 0.2121 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.1958 | 0.2121 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.1984 | 0.2121 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1747 | 0.1785 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.2006 | 0.2142 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.2006 | 0.2142 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.2080 | 0.2145 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.2112 | 0.2226 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.2112 | 0.2241 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.2112 | 0.2247 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.2112 | 0.2247 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.2112 | 0.2268 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.2170 | 0.2331 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.2176 | 0.2331 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.1792 | 0.1785 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.2176 | 0.2394 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.2218 | 0.2448 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.2336 | 0.2751 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.2688 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.1792 | 0.1785 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.1824 | 0.1874 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.1824 | 0.1911 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.1856 | 0.1915 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.1856 | 0.1915 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.1888 | 0.1953 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.1664 | n/a |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.1664 | n/a |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.1664 | n/a |
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