a1.2xlarge vs m9gd.2xlarge

Instance Typea1.2xlargem9gd.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
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB32 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.xlargem9gd.12xlarge, m9gd.16xlarge, m9gd.24xlarge, m9gd.2xlarge, m9gd.48xlarge, m9gd.4xlarge, m9gd.8xlarge, m9gd.large, m9gd.medium, m9gd.metal-48xl, m9gd.xlarge
Generationsm6gd.2xlarge, m7gd.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m9gd.2xlarge
Variantsm9g.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 Diff1.00x2.51x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.2xlarge
m9gd.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20400.5333
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23040.5607
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.23280.5607
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23520.6052
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25680.6274
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.26640.6318
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.6496
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.20400.5028
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.20400.5028
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.5028
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