a1.4xlarge vs d2.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlarged2.4xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage 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
Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehousing, MapReduce/Hadoop computing, distributed/file network systems, and log/data-processing applications.

d – Disk / storage optimized
2 – Generation
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarged2.2xlarge, d2.4xlarge, d2.8xlarge, d2.xlarge
Generationsd2.4xlarge, d3.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units56
Instance StorageEBS only12 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps2000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x7.05x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
d2.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40802.7920
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a3.3060
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a3.3120
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a3.3120
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a3.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a3.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a3.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a3.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a3.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a3.5000
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a3.8280
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46082.9400
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.46563.0360
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47043.0870
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51363.0880
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.53283.0880
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a3.1250
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a3.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a3.2340
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.40802.7600
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40802.7600
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.7600
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