AWS Amazon EC2

c4.4xlarge

Part of the C4 Compute Optimized family — High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimized44th Generation4xlarge4 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$0.7960/ hr

~$581.08/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.4070/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −49% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0498/ vCPU-hr

$0.0265/GB-hr

Compute

16vCPUs

8 cores • x86_64

Memory

30GB

1.9 GB / vCPU

Network

High

Baseline: 5 Gbps

Storage & EBS

250MB/s

Max: 16,000 IOPS

Alternatives to c4.4xlarge

Option	Price vs c4.4xlarge	Why look at it
c5.4xlarge Compare →	-15%-$0.116/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, 32 GiB RAM instead of 30, same vCPU
c6i.4xlarge Compare →	-15%-$0.116/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, 32 GiB RAM instead of 30, same vCPU
c7i.4xlarge Compare →	-10%-$0.082/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, 32 GiB RAM instead of 30, same vCPU
c7g.4xlarge Compare →	-27%-$0.216/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), newer generation, 32 GiB RAM instead of 30, same vCPU

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to c4.4xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c4.4xlarge
c4.4xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	16 vCPU · 30 GiB	$0.7960/hr	—
c4d-highcpu-16same 16 vCPU and 30 GiB; Intel vs AMD	16 vCPU · 30 GiB	$0.635856/hr	20% 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 E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads16 vCPUs

Physical Cores8

Clock Speed2.9 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score268,007

CoreMark / vCPU16,750.4 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding85 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar336,692 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0498

Cost per GB-hr$0.0265

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 Bandwidth5 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth10 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput250 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput250 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS16,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS16,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput2000 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor32

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.7960/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$1.2350/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$0.9317/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

16regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 16 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.8000
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$1.0080
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.9070
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.9240
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$1.0420
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$1.0080
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.9580
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.8760
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.9090
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.9050
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.9500
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$1.2350
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.7960
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.7960
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.9970
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.7960

Windows — Available in all 16 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$1.5360
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$1.7440
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$1.6430
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$1.6600
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$1.7780
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$1.7440
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$1.6940
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$1.6120
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$1.6450
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$1.6410
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$1.6860
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$1.9710
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$1.5320
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$1.5320
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$1.7330
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$1.5320

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 c4.4xlarge on Linux is 51% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 51% 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.