a1.4xlarge vs m4.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlargem4.4xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
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
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
4 – Generation
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargem4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.large, m4.xlarge
Generationsm2.4xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m5.4xlarge, m6i.4xlarge, m7i.4xlarge, m8i.4xlarge
SageMakerml.m4.4xlarge
RDSdb.m4.4xlarge
OpenSearchm4.4xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m4.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
EC2 Compute Units53.5
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps2000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps2000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitHigh
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.09x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
m4.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40800.8400
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a1.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a1.0320
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a1.0320
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.2720
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46080.8880
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.46560.8880
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47040.9280
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51360.9360
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.53280.9600
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a1.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a1.0000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.40800.8000
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40800.8000
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.8000
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