a1.2xlarge vs c6g.2xlarge

Instance Typea1.2xlargec6g.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments.

a – ARM AWS Graviton Processor
1 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

c – Compute optimized
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargec6g.12xlarge, c6g.16xlarge, c6g.2xlarge, c6g.4xlarge, c6g.8xlarge, c6g.large, c6g.medium, c6g.metal, c6g.xlarge
Generationsc6g.2xlarge, c7g.2xlarge, c8g.2xlarge
Variantsc6a.2xlarge, c6gd.2xlarge, c6gn.2xlarge, c6i.2xlarge, c6id.2xlarge, c6in.2xlarge
SageMakerml.c6g.2xlarge
OpenSearchc6g.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 4500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps296.875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.37x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
a1.2xlarge
c6g.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.1704
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.2666
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.20400.1704
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20400.2666
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.2976
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.3064
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.3080
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.3082
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.3104
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.3136
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.3136
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.3210
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.3232
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.3232
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23040.2720
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.3240
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.3264
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.3264
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.3392
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.3400
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.3414
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.3424
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.3440
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.3440
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.3552
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.23280.2720
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.3552
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.3648
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.3730
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a0.4192
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23520.2720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25680.2856
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.26640.2918
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.2918
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.2920
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.2976
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.2040n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.2040n/a
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