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a1.large vs i8ge.large

Instance Typea1.largei8ge.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage 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
large – Size
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
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
e – Extra storage or memory
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory4 GiB16 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.xlargei8ge.12xlarge, i8ge.18xlarge, i8ge.24xlarge, i8ge.2xlarge, i8ge.3xlarge, i8ge.48xlarge, i8ge.6xlarge, i8ge.large, i8ge.metal-24xl, i8ge.metal-48xl, i8ge.xlarge
Variantsi8g.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1250 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth525 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput65.625 Mbps78.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS2500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1010
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x4.40x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
a1.large
i8ge.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.0510n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.05100.2835
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.0576n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.0582n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.0588n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.0642n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.0666n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.05100.2373
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.05100.2373
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.2373
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