a1.large vs c8i.large
| a1.large | c8i.large |
| General purpose | Compute optimized |
| Obsolete. Not recommended for use Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments. a – ARM AWS Graviton Processor 1 – Generation large – Size | High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. c – Compute optimized 8 – Generation i – Intel processor large – Size |
| 2 | 2 |
| 4 GiB | 4 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) |
| 2.3 GHz | 3.9 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | c8i.12xlarge, c8i.16xlarge, c8i.24xlarge, c8i.2xlarge, c8i.32xlarge, c8i.48xlarge, c8i.4xlarge, c8i.8xlarge, c8i.96xlarge, c8i.large, c8i.metal-48xl, c8i.metal-96xl, c8i.xlarge |
| c6i.large, c7i.large, c8i.large | |
| c8a.large, c8g.large, c8gb.large, c8gd.large, c8gn.large, c8i-flex.large, c8ib.large, c8id.large, c8in.large, c8ine.large | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| EBS only | EBS only |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 3500 MBps | up to 10000 MBps |
| 525 Mbps | 650 Mbps |
| 65.625 Mbps | 81.25 Mbps |
| 4000 IOPS | 3600 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 12500 Megabit |
| yes | yes |
| 3 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 20 |
| 10 | 20 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 1.91x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.large | c8i.large |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2) | n/a | 0.0937 |
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5) | n/a | 0.0918 |
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.0510 | 0.0937 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0510 | 0.0937 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.1114 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.1114 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.1169 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.1180 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 0.1224 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 0.1257 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 0.1285 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 0.1444 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.0576 | 0.0937 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.0582 | 0.0937 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.0588 | 0.1005 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.0642 | 0.1006 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.0666 | 0.1025 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.1058 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.1069 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.1081 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.0510 | n/a |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.0510 | n/a |