a1.4xlarge vs m8idb.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlargem8idb.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
i – Intel processor
d – Instance store volume
b – EBS optimized
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargem8idb.12xlarge, m8idb.16xlarge, m8idb.24xlarge, m8idb.2xlarge, m8idb.32xlarge, m8idb.48xlarge, m8idb.4xlarge, m8idb.8xlarge, m8idb.96xlarge, m8idb.large, m8idb.metal-48xl, m8idb.metal-96xl, m8idb.xlarge
Variantsm8a.4xlarge, m8g.4xlarge, m8gb.4xlarge, m8gd.4xlarge, m8gn.4xlarge, m8i-flex.4xlarge, m8i.4xlarge, m8ib.4xlarge, m8id.4xlarge, m8idn.4xlarge, m8in.4xlarge, m8ine.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 950 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBpsup to 25000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps12500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps1562.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps25000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps3125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 33.33 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.65x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
m8idb.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40801.6722
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46081.7073
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.46561.9656
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.4704n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.5136n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.5328n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.40801.5275
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40801.5275
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.5275
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