a1.4xlarge vs is4gen.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlargeis4gen.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
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

is – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to six ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB96 GiB
CPU Architecturen/aarm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core01
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargeis4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 7500 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces8
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface30
IPv6 Addresses per Interface30
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x5.70x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
is4gen.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40802.5500
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46082.5500
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.46562.6200
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47042.6826
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51362.6826
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.53282.7132
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a2.7540
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.7642
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.7642
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.40802.3052
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40802.3052
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.3052
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