a1.2xlarge vs m6id.2xlarge
| a1.2xlarge | m6id.2xlarge |
| General purpose | General purpose |
| 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 | Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 6 – Generation i – Intel processor d – Instance store volume 2xlarge – Size |
| 8 | 8 |
| 16 GiB | 32 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake) |
| 2.3 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | m6id.12xlarge, m6id.16xlarge, m6id.24xlarge, m6id.2xlarge, m6id.32xlarge, m6id.4xlarge, m6id.8xlarge, m6id.large, m6id.metal, m6id.xlarge |
| m6id.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge | |
| m6a.2xlarge, m6g.2xlarge, m6gd.2xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m6idn.2xlarge, m6in.2xlarge | |
| ml.m6id.2xlarge | |
| db.m6id.2xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 474 NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 3500 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 1750 Mbps | 2500 Mbps |
| 218.75 Mbps | 312.5 Mbps |
| 10000 IOPS | 12000 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 12500 Megabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 2.46x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.2xlarge | m6id.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.2040 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.2040 | 0.4983 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.5519 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.5544 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.5557 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.5586 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 0.5712 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 0.5838 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 0.5922 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 0.5964 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | n/a | 0.6008 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | n/a | 0.6132 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.2304 | 0.5034 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | n/a | 0.6262 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | n/a | 0.6283 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | n/a | 0.7560 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2328 | 0.5034 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2352 | 0.5124 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2568 | 0.5292 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2664 | 0.5292 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.5292 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.5292 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.5502 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.2040 | 0.4746 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.2040 | 0.4746 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.4746 |