a1.2xlarge vs m6g.2xlarge

Instance Typea1.2xlargem6g.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
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
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB32 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.xlargem6g.12xlarge, m6g.16xlarge, m6g.2xlarge, m6g.4xlarge, m6g.8xlarge, m6g.large, m6g.medium, m6g.metal, m6g.xlarge
Generationsm6g.2xlarge, m7g.2xlarge, m8g.2xlarge
Variantsm6a.2xlarge, m6gd.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m6id.2xlarge, m6idn.2xlarge, m6in.2xlarge
SageMakerml.m6g.2xlarge
RDSdb.m6g.2xlarge
OpenSearchm6g.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m6g.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBps2250 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 Diff1.00x1.58x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
a1.2xlarge
m6g.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.2024
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.20400.2024
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20400.3080
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.3440
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.3552
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.3564
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.3584
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.3584
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.3600
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.3612
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.3680
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23040.3080
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.3784
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.3840
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.3872
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.3872
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.3960
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.3968
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.4032
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.23280.3234
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.4048
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.4064
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.4240
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a0.4896
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23520.3264
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25680.3264
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.26640.3280
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.3424
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.3424
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.3440
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.2040n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.20400.3080
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