a1.4xlarge vs hpc7g.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlargehpc7g.4xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute 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
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
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturen/aarm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton3 Processor
Clock Speed2.6 GHz
Threads Per Core01
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargehpc7g.16xlarge, hpc7g.4xlarge, hpc7g.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps87 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth87 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput10.875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance11000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2085 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput260.625 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit200 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces4
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x4.21x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
hpc7g.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a1.8059
USGovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1)n/a2.0262
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40802.1117
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)0.4080n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40801.6832
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