a1.4xlarge vs m8gn.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlargem8gn.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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargem8gn.12xlarge, m8gn.16xlarge, m8gn.24xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8gn.48xlarge, m8gn.4xlarge, m8gn.8xlarge, m8gn.large, m8gn.medium, m8gn.metal-24xl, m8gn.metal-48xl, m8gn.xlarge
Variantsm8a.4xlarge, m8g.4xlarge, m8gb.4xlarge, m8gd.4xlarge, m8i-flex.4xlarge, m8i.4xlarge, m8ib.4xlarge, m8id.4xlarge, m8idb.4xlarge, m8idn.4xlarge, m8in.4xlarge, m8ine.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit50 Gigabit
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 Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.67x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
m8gn.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a1.3010
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.4080n/a
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)0.40801.1640
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.1640
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