C4 Compute Optimized

High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimizedc = Compute OptimizedOptimized for compute-bound applications that benefit from high-performance processors (web servers, batch processing, gaming servers, and video encoding).44th Generation4 = 4th GenerationAWS 4th generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.

Common use cases

  • Batch processing
  • Scientific modeling
  • Gaming servers
  • High-performance web servers

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Instance types (5)

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
c4.large24 GBx86_64$0.1000
c4.xlarge48 GBx86_64$0.1990
c4.2xlarge815 GBx86_64$0.3980
c4.4xlarge1630 GBx86_64$0.7960
c4.8xlarge3660 GBx86_64$1.5910