a1.4xlarge vs m7i.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlargem7i.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
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.2 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargem7i.12xlarge, m7i.16xlarge, m7i.24xlarge, m7i.2xlarge, m7i.48xlarge, m7i.4xlarge, m7i.8xlarge, m7i.large, m7i.metal-24xl, m7i.metal-48xl, m7i.xlarge
Generationsm6i.4xlarge, m7i.4xlarge, m8i.4xlarge
Variantsm7a.4xlarge, m7g.4xlarge, m7gd.4xlarge, m7i-flex.4xlarge
SageMakerml.m7i.4xlarge
RDSdb.m7i.4xlarge
OpenSearchm7i.4xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.11x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
m7i.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40800.8467
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.9324
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.9374
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.9408
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.9408
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.9408
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.9438
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.9660
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.9887
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.9912
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a1.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46080.8484
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a1.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a1.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a1.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a1.0164
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a1.0164
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a1.0416
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a1.0416
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a1.0584
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a1.0626
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a1.0668
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.46560.8484
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a1.1088
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a1.2852
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47040.8568
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51360.8568
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.53280.8568
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.8988
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.8988
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.8988
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.40800.8064
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40800.8064
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.8064
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