vt1.3xlarge vs r3.4xlarge

Instance Typevt1.3xlarger3.4xlarge
Instance FamilyMedia AcceleratorMemory optimized
DetailsFast real-time video transcoding and cost-effective live video stream transcoding.

vt – Video transcoding
1 – Generation
3xlarge – 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
vCPUs1216
Memory24 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259CLIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesvt1.24xlarge, vt1.3xlarge, vt1.6xlarger3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge
Generationsr3.4xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r6i.4xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r8i.4xlarge
RDSdb.r3.4xlarge
OpenSearchr3.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units52
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 320 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput2375 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2375 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput296.875 Mbps250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth4750 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput593.75 Mbps250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance3125 MegabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces48
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1530
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.25x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
vt1.3xlarge
r3.4xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)0.7341n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.81821.4820
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.7990
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a1.4820
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a1.5160
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)n/a1.3280
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.65001.3300
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.65001.3300
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