a1.2xlarge vs i2.2xlarge

Instance Typea1.2xlargei2.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage 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
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
2 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB61 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargei2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlarge
Generationsi2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
OpenSearchi2.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units27
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 800 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBps1500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS8000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps1000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x8.45x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.2xlarge
i2.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20401.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23041.8760
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.23281.9330
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23522.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25682.0010
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.26642.0260
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a2.0350
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.0350
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.0460
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.20401.7050
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.20401.7050
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.7050
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