a1.4xlarge vs hpc7g.4xlarge
| a1.4xlarge | hpc7g.4xlarge |
| General purpose | Compute 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 | High-performance computing (HPC), computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, seismic analysis, reservoir simulation, risk analysis, and weather modeling. hpc – High performance computing (HPC) / high disk throughput 7 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor 4xlarge – Size |
| 16 | 16 |
| 32 GiB | 128 GiB |
| arm64 | arm64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | AWS Graviton3 Processor |
| 2.3 GHz | 2.6 GHz |
| 1 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | hpc7g.16xlarge, hpc7g.4xlarge, hpc7g.8xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| EBS only | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| 3500 MBps | 87 MBps |
| 3500 Mbps | 87 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 10.875 Mbps |
| 20000 IOPS | 500 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 11000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 2085 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 260.625 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | 200 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 50 |
| 30 | 50 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | yes |
| 1 | |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 4.21x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.4xlarge | hpc7g.4xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.4080 | n/a |
| Europe | Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1) | n/a | 1.8059 |
| US | GovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1) | n/a | 2.0262 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.4080 | 2.1117 |
| 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 | n/a |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4080 | 1.6832 |