a1.4xlarge vs c6gn.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlargec6gn.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
n – Network and EBS optimized
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.xlargec6gn.12xlarge, c6gn.16xlarge, c6gn.2xlarge, c6gn.4xlarge, c6gn.8xlarge, c6gn.large, c6gn.medium, c6gn.metal, c6gn.xlarge
Generationsc6gn.4xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c8gn.4xlarge
Variantsc6a.4xlarge, c6g.4xlarge, c6gd.4xlarge, c6i.4xlarge, c6id.4xlarge, c6in.4xlarge
SageMakerml.c6gn.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps9500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps1187.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps9500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps1187.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.77x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
c6gn.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.6733
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)n/a0.6733
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40800.6912
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.7848
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.7888
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.7920
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.7936
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.8198
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.8200
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.8200
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.8256
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46080.6912
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.8576
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.8640
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.8720
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.8738
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.9040
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.9160
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.9493
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a1.0640
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.46560.6920
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47040.7258
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51360.7440
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.53280.7568
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.7568
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.7800
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.7808
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.4080n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40800.6912
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