a1.2xlarge vs im4gn.2xlarge
| a1.2xlarge | im4gn.2xlarge |
| General purpose | Storage optimized |
| Obsolete. 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 | NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks. im – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to four ratio of vCPU to memory 4 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor n – Network and EBS optimized 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 16 GiB | 32 GiB |
| arm64 | arm64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | AWS Graviton2 Processor |
| 2.3 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 1 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | im4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge |
| im4gn.2xlarge.search | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 3750 SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 3500 MBps | up to 9500 MBps |
| 1750 Mbps | 5000 Mbps |
| 218.75 Mbps | 625 Mbps |
| 10000 IOPS | 20000 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 25 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 3.60x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.2xlarge | im4gn.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.2040 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.2040 | 0.8022 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.8722 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.8722 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.2304 | 0.8022 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2328 | 0.8022 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2352 | 0.8260 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2568 | 0.8440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2664 | 0.8442 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.8442 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.8535 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.8675 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.2040 | 0.7276 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.2040 | 0.7276 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.7276 |