a1.4xlarge vs c8g.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlargec8g.4xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments.

aARM 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.

cCompute optimized
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargec8g.12xlarge, c8g.16xlarge, c8g.24xlarge, c8g.2xlarge, c8g.48xlarge, c8g.4xlarge, c8g.8xlarge, c8g.large, c8g.medium, c8g.metal-24xl, c8g.metal-48xl, c8g.xlarge
Generationsc6g.4xlarge, c7g.4xlarge, c8g.4xlarge
Variantsc8a.4xlarge, c8gb.4xlarge, c8gd.4xlarge, c8gn.4xlarge, c8i-flex.4xlarge, c8i.4xlarge, c8ib.4xlarge, c8id.4xlarge, c8in.4xlarge, c8ine.4xlarge
SageMakerml.c8g.4xlarge
OpenSearchc8g.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBpsup to 10240 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 Diff1.00x1.58x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
c8g.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.4318
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.6230
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.40800.4318
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40800.6230
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.7256
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.7330
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.7331
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.7538
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.7555
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.7630
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.7930
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.7982
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.8003
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.8005
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46080.6358
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.8008
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.8302
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.8304
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.9774
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.46560.6381
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47040.6381
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51360.6808
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.53280.6821
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.6822
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.6957
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.7181
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.4080n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.4080n/a
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