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Benchmarks for c3.large (AWS)

Individual CPU benchmark results for the AWS EC2 instance type c3.large. The table displays the single-threaded CPU speed as reported by the Passmark benchmark tool, as well as the on-demand, spot pricing, and spot interruption percentage.

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✅ This instance type is available for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners using RunsOn.

EC2 Instance family: c3

CPU type: Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 (Ivy Bridge) processor. Specific features: Compute-optimized for high-performance workloads, SSD-based instance storage, supports Intel AVX, and offers enhanced networking. Date of release: November 14, 2013. Status: Considered a Previous Generation Instance and users are encouraged to upgrade to current generation types (e.g., C6/C7 families) for better performance and features.

Results

This benchmark has been generated using the c3.large instance type. Results are averaged over many days (you can mouse over the sparline to get more details).

🇚ðŸ‡ļ North Virginia (us-east-1)

Family Instance type Processor CPU speed (avg) $/hour on-demand $/hour spot (avg) Spot savings over on-demand Spot % interruption
c3 c3.large Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (x86_64) 1625 0.1050 0.0348 66% 5-10%

🇚ðŸ‡ļ Oregon (us-west-2)

Family Instance type Processor CPU speed (avg) $/hour on-demand $/hour spot (avg) Spot savings over on-demand Spot % interruption
c3 c3.large Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (x86_64) 1625 0.1050 0.0344 61% <5%

ðŸ‡Ū🇊 Ireland (eu-west-1)

Family Instance type Processor CPU speed (avg) $/hour on-demand $/hour spot (avg) Spot savings over on-demand Spot % interruption
c3 c3.large Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (x86_64) 1625 0.1200 0.0537 52% <5%

ðŸ‡Đ🇊 Frankfurt (eu-central-1)

Family Instance type Processor CPU speed (avg) $/hour on-demand $/hour spot (avg) Spot savings over on-demand Spot % interruption
c3 c3.large Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (x86_64) 1625 0.1290 0.0440 65% 15-20%

About those benchmarks

Benchmarks are performed using the Passmark benchmarking tool, using the CPU Single Threaded metric.