a1.4xlarge vs c7gd.4xlarge
| a1.4xlarge | c7gd.4xlarge |
| General purpose | Compute optimized |
| Obsolete. 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 d – Instance store volume 4xlarge – Size |
| 16 | 16 |
| 32 GiB | 32 GiB |
| arm64 | arm64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | AWS Graviton3 Processor |
| 2.3 GHz | 2.6 GHz |
| 1 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | c7gd.12xlarge, c7gd.16xlarge, c7gd.2xlarge, c7gd.4xlarge, c7gd.8xlarge, c7gd.large, c7gd.medium, c7gd.metal, c7gd.xlarge |
| c6gd.4xlarge, c7gd.4xlarge, c8gd.4xlarge | |
| c7a.4xlarge, c7g.4xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c7i-flex.4xlarge, c7i.4xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 950 NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| 3500 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 3500 Mbps | 5000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 625 Mbps |
| 20000 IOPS | 20000 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 15 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 30 |
| 30 | 30 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.84x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.4xlarge | c7gd.4xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5) | n/a | 0.7197 |
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.4080 | 0.4608 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.4080 | 0.7258 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.8467 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.8694 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.8694 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.8770 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 0.8770 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 0.9072 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 0.9222 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 0.9224 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | n/a | 0.9230 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | n/a | 0.9526 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4608 | 0.7258 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | n/a | 1.1264 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.4656 | 0.7862 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.4704 | 0.8013 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.5136 | 0.8240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.5328 | 0.8240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.8317 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.8392 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.8467 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.4080 | n/a |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4080 | 0.7258 |