a1.4xlarge vs d3en.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlarged3en.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
3 – Generation
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturen/ax86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core02
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarged3en.12xlarge, d3en.2xlarge, d3en.4xlarge, d3en.6xlarge, d3en.8xlarge, d3en.xlarge
Variantsd3.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only8 x 14000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps2800 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2800 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput350 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance15000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance15000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2800 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput350 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces4
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface10
IPv6 Addresses per Interface10
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x5.66x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
d3en.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a2.5660
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40802.6360
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46082.6360
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.46562.6360
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47042.7710
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51363.0490
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.5328n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.4080n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40802.1030
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.1030
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