a1.2xlarge vs c9gd.2xlarge

Instance Typea1.2xlargec9gd.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
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturen/aarm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton5 Processor
Clock Speed3.3 GHz
Threads Per Core01
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargec9gd.12xlarge, c9gd.16xlarge, c9gd.24xlarge, c9gd.2xlarge, c9gd.48xlarge, c9gd.4xlarge, c9gd.8xlarge, c9gd.large, c9gd.medium, c9gd.metal-48xl, c9gd.xlarge
Generationsc6gd.2xlarge, c7gd.2xlarge, c8gd.2xlarge, c9gd.2xlarge
Variantsc9g.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 474 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 12000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance48000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth12000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1500 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 17 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces4
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface30
IPv6 Addresses per Interface30
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.06x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.2xlarge
c9gd.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.4236
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20400.4272
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23040.4895
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.23280.4940
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23520.4983
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25680.5429
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.2664n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.20400.4272
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.20400.4272
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