a1.4xlarge vs c6g.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlargec6g.4xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute 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
4xlarge – Size
High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

c – Compute optimized
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 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.xlargec6g.12xlarge, c6g.16xlarge, c6g.2xlarge, c6g.4xlarge, c6g.8xlarge, c6g.large, c6g.medium, c6g.metal, c6g.xlarge
Generationsc6g.4xlarge, c7g.4xlarge, c8g.4xlarge, c9g.4xlarge
Variantsc6a.4xlarge, c6gd.4xlarge, c6gn.4xlarge, c6i.4xlarge, c6id.4xlarge, c6in.4xlarge
SageMakerml.c6g.4xlarge
OpenSearchc6g.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps4500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS20000 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 Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.37x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
c6g.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.3408
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.5331
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.40800.3408
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40800.5331
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.5952
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.6128
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.6160
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.6163
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.6208
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.6272
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.6272
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.6421
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.6464
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.6464
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46080.5440
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.6480
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.6528
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.6528
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.6784
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.6800
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.6829
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.6848
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.6880
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.7104
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.46560.5440
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.7104
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.7296
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.7459
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a0.8384
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47040.5440
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51360.5712
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.53280.5837
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.5837
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.5952
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.4080n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.4080n/a
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