a1.4xlarge vs c7g.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlargec7g.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
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton3 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.6 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargec7g.12xlarge, c7g.16xlarge, c7g.2xlarge, c7g.4xlarge, c7g.8xlarge, c7g.large, c7g.medium, c7g.metal, c7g.xlarge
Generationsc6g.4xlarge, c7g.4xlarge, c8g.4xlarge, c9g.4xlarge
Variantsc7a.4xlarge, c7gd.4xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c7i-flex.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarge
SageMakerml.c7g.4xlarge
OpenSearchc7g.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 15 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 Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.45x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
c7g.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.3926
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.5664
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.40800.3926
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40800.5664
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.6325
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.6512
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.6528
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.6549
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.6596
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.6664
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.6664
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.6852
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.6869
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.6869
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46080.5781
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.6936
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.6936
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.7181
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.7208
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.7256
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.7276
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.7277
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.7280
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.7549
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.7752
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.46560.5800
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.7926
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.8886
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47040.5800
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51360.6090
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.53280.6189
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.6200
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.6202
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.6325
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.4080n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.4080n/a
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