AWS Amazon EC2

c3.xlarge

Prev Gen

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

Name:cCompute Optimized33rd GenerationxlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.2100/ hr

~$153.30/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.1310/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −38% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0525/ vCPU-hr

$0.0280/GB-hr

Compute

4vCPUs

2 cores • x86_64

Memory

8GB

1.9 GB / vCPU

Network

Moderate

Baseline: 0.7 Gbps

Storage & EBS

62.5MB/s

Max: 4,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

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

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c3.xlarge
c3.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	4 vCPU · 7.5 GiB	$0.2100/hr	—
n4-highcpu-44 vCPU and 8 GiB for 4 vCPU and 7.5 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; local disk on c3.xlarge only	4 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.15308/hr	27% less
c3-highcpu-44 vCPU and 8 GiB for 4 vCPU and 7.5 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; local disk on c3.xlarge only	4 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.170104/hr	19% less
c4-highcpu-44 vCPU and 8 GiB for 4 vCPU and 7.5 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; local disk on c3.xlarge only	4 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.170104/hr	19% 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 / Threads4 vCPUs

Physical Cores2

Clock Speed2.8 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score58,594

CoreMark / vCPU14,648.4 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding21 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar279,019 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0525

Cost per GB-hr$0.0280

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods58 pods

Max ENIs4

IPv4/v6 per ENI15

Total Addressable IPs60 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceModerate

Baseline Bandwidth0.7 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth10 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationSSD (80 GB)

Local NVMe Disk80 GB SSD

EBS Baseline Throughput62.5 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput62.5 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS4,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS4,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput1 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor8

Generation StatusPrevious Generation

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.2100/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.3250/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$0.2498/ 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)	$0.2300
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.2650
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.2650
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.2550
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.2520
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.2580
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.2390
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.3250
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.2100
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.2390
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.2100

Windows — Available in all 11 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.4140
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.4770
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.4770
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.4620
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.4180
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.4240
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Lowest	$0.3760
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.4910
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.3760
us-west-1 US West (N. California) Lowest	$0.3760
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.3760

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.xlarge on Linux is 62% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 62% 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.