t3.small vs r4.large

Instance Typet3.smallr4.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
3 – Generation
small – 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
4 – Generation
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory2 GiB15.25 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Skylake E5 2686 v5Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest3.2xlarge, t3.large, t3.medium, t3.micro, t3.nano, t3.small, t3.xlarger4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarge
Generationst2.small, t3.smallr3.large, r4.large, r5.large, r6i.large, r7i.large, r8i.large
Variantst3a.small
SageMakerml.t3.small
RDSdb.t3.smalldb.r4.large
DocumentDBdb.r4.large
OpenSearcht3.small.searchr4.large.search
ElastiCachecache.t3.smallcache.r4.large
Free Tieryesno
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units8
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 2085 MBps400 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth174 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput21.75 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance1000 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance11800 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2085 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput260.625 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 5 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface410
IPv6 Addresses per Interface410
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x6.42x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t3.small
r4.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.02160.1370
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.02360.1600
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.02380.1600
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.02380.1600
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.02400.1601
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.02400.2800
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.0240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.0244n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.0244n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.0245n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.0248n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.02180.1460
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.0251n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.0251n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.0260n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.0264n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.0264n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.0264n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.0264n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.0264n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.0271n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.0272n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.02240.1482
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.0272n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.0277n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.0292n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.0336n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.02240.1482
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.02280.1560
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.02280.1560
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.02320.1596
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.02320.1596
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.02360.1600
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.02080.1330
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.02080.1330
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.02080.1330
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