a1.4xlarge vs h1.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlargeh1.4xlarge
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
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
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturen/ax86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core02
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargeh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units58
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMeunsupported
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces8
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface30
IPv6 Addresses per Interface30
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.12x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
h1.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40801.0380
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.4608n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.4656n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.4704n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.5136n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.5328n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.40800.9360
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40800.9360
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.9360
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