AWS Amazon EC2

c3.4xlarge

Prev Gen

Part of the C3 Compute Optimized family — High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimized33rd Generation4xlarge4 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$0.8400/ hr

~$613.20/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.5260/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −37% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0525/ vCPU-hr

$0.0280/GB-hr

Compute

16vCPUs

8 cores • x86_64

Memory

30GB

1.9 GB / vCPU

Network

High

Baseline: 2 Gbps

Storage & EBS

250MB/s

Max: 16,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to c3.4xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c3.4xlarge
c3.4xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	16 vCPU · 30 GiB	$0.8400/hr	—
c4d-highcpu-16same 16 vCPU and 30 GiB; Intel vs AMD; local disk on c3.4xlarge only	16 vCPU · 30 GiB	$0.635856/hr	24% less

Matched on vCPU and memory, then CPU vendor, then rate; a larger size is offered only when nothing is the same size. On-demand Linux only: Spot and commitments work differently on the two clouds, so they aren't compared here.

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads16 vCPUs

Physical Cores8

Clock Speed2.8 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score237,989

CoreMark / vCPU14,874.3 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding80 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar283,320 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0525

Cost per GB-hr$0.0280

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods234 pods

Max ENIs8

IPv4/v6 per ENI30

Total Addressable IPs240 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceHigh

Baseline Bandwidth2 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth10 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationSSD (320 GB)

Local NVMe Disk320 GB SSD

EBS Baseline Throughput250 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput250 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS16,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS16,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput1 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor32

Generation StatusPrevious Generation

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.8400/ hr

US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)

Highest Price Region

$1.3000/ hr

South America (Sao Paulo) (sa-east-1)

Global Fleet Average

$0.9989/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

11regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 11 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.9190
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$1.0580
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$1.0580
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$1.0210
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$1.0080
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$1.0320
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.9560
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$1.3000
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.8400
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.9560
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.8400

Windows — Available in all 11 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$1.6550
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$1.9060
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$1.9060
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$1.8490
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$1.6720
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$1.6960
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Lowest	$1.5040
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$1.9640
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$1.5040
us-west-1 US West (N. California) Lowest	$1.5040
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$1.5040

Savings Plans: what to know

A Savings Plan commits you to a dollar amount per hour of spend for one or three years, not to an instance: usage up to that amount is billed at the plan's rates and the rest at on-demand, and unused commitment is still billed.
A Compute Savings Plan follows your usage across instance families, sizes, regions and operating systems; an EC2 Instance Savings Plan is locked to one family in one region in exchange for a lower rate (what that flexibility costs).
In US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for c3.4xlarge on Linux is 63% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 63% of the hours for the commitment to cost less than on-demand.
On Windows a plan discounts only the compute part of the rate: the Windows license part costs the same as on demand, so the percentage off is smaller than on Linux.
Rates are AWS's effective hourly rate for each payment option; All Upfront pays the whole term's commitment at purchase, which is why its hourly rate is lower; Partial Upfront (at least half up front) isn't shown on this page. The Savings Plans calculator has all three and sizes a commitment for this instance or a mix of them. How AWS applies a plan each hour: how Compute Savings Plans decide what they cover. Sizing one for elastic workloads: managing Compute Savings Plans.