a1.4xlarge vs h1.4xlarge
| a1.4xlarge | h1.4xlarge |
| General purpose | Storage 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 | Amazon EMR workloads, distributed file systems (HDFS, MapR-FS), network file systems, log/data processing apps (like Apache Kafka), and big data clusters. h – HDD / hard disk throughput optimized 1 – Generation 4xlarge – Size |
| 16 | 16 |
| 32 GiB | 64 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) |
| 2.3 GHz | 2.3 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | h1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 58 | |
| EBS only | 2 x 2000 HDD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | unsupported |
| 3500 MBps | 3500 MBps |
| 3500 Mbps | 3500 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 437.5 Mbps |
| 20000 IOPS | 20000 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 20000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 3500 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 437.5 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 30 |
| 30 | 30 |
| yes | yes |
| required | supported |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 2.12x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.4xlarge | h1.4xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.4080 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.4080 | 1.0380 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4608 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.4656 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.4704 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.5136 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.5328 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.4080 | 0.9360 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4080 | 0.9360 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.9360 |