a1.4xlarge vs r9gd.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlarger9gd.4xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory 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
High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
9 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
d – Instance store volume
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton5 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.3 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarger9gd.12xlarge, r9gd.16xlarge, r9gd.24xlarge, r9gd.2xlarge, r9gd.48xlarge, r9gd.4xlarge, r9gd.8xlarge, r9gd.large, r9gd.medium, r9gd.metal-48xl, r9gd.xlarge
Generationsr6gd.4xlarge, r7gd.4xlarge, r8gd.4xlarge, r9gd.4xlarge
Variantsr9g.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 950 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBpsup to 12000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps6000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS24000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS48000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps12000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps1500 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 17 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 Diff1.00x2.97x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
r9gd.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40801.5397
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)0.40801.2814
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40801.2814
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.2814
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