i2.large vs a1.large

Instance Typei2.largea1.large
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedGeneral purpose
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
2 – Generation
large – Size
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
vCPUs22
Memory15 GiB4 GiB
CPU Architecturen/aarm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)AWS Graviton Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core01
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge, i2.large, i2.xlargea1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge
Generationsi2.large, i3.large, i4i.large, i7i.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units7
Instance Storage1 x 800 SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth525 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput65.625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces3
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface10
IPv6 Addresses per Interface10
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price DiffInfinityx

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
i2.large
a1.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a0.0510
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a0.0510
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.0576
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.0582
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.0588
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.0642
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.0666
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.0510
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a0.0510
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