a1.4xlarge vs i8g.4xlarge
| a1.4xlarge | i8g.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 | NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks. i – IOPS / storage optimized 8 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor 4xlarge – Size |
| 16 | 16 |
| 32 GiB | 128 GiB |
| arm64 | arm64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | AWS Graviton4 Processor |
| 2.3 GHz | 2.8 GHz |
| 1 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | i8g.12xlarge, i8g.16xlarge, i8g.24xlarge, i8g.2xlarge, i8g.48xlarge, i8g.4xlarge, i8g.8xlarge, i8g.large, i8g.metal-24xl, i8g.metal-48xl, i8g.xlarge |
| i4g.4xlarge, i8g.4xlarge | |
| i8g.4xlarge.search | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 3750GB |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| 3500 MBps | up to 10240 MBps |
| 3500 Mbps | 5000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 625 Mbps |
| 20000 IOPS | 20000 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 25 Gigabit |
| yes | no |
| 8 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 30 |
| 30 | 30 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 3.48x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.4xlarge | i8g.4xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.4080 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.4080 | 1.4352 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 1.6368 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 1.6456 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 1.6456 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 2.1920 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4608 | 1.5128 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.4656 | 1.5128 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.4704 | 1.5128 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.5136 | 1.5576 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.5328 | 1.5928 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 1.6104 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 1.6104 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 1.6128 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.4080 | 1.3728 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4080 | 1.3728 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 1.3728 |