a1.2xlarge vs c7g.2xlarge

Instance Typea1.2xlargec7g.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
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton3 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.6 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargec7g.12xlarge, c7g.16xlarge, c7g.2xlarge, c7g.4xlarge, c7g.8xlarge, c7g.large, c7g.medium, c7g.metal, c7g.xlarge
Generationsc6g.2xlarge, c7g.2xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c9g.2xlarge
Variantsc7a.2xlarge, c7gd.2xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c7i-flex.2xlarge, c7i.2xlarge
SageMakerml.c7g.2xlarge
OpenSearchc7g.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 15 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.45x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.2xlarge
c7g.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.1963
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.2832
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.20400.1963
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20400.2832
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.3162
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.3256
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.3264
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.3274
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.3298
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.3332
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.3332
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.3426
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.3434
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.3434
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23040.2890
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.3468
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.3468
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.3590
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.3604
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.3628
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.3638
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.3638
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.3640
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.3774
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.3876
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.23280.2900
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.3963
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.4443
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23520.2900
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25680.3045
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.26640.3094
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.3100
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.3101
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.3162
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.2040n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.2040n/a
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