a1.medium vs c7g.medium

Instance Typea1.mediumc7g.medium
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute 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
medium – 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
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
medium – Size
vCPUs11
Memory2 GiB2 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton3 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.6 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargec7g.12xlarge, c7g.16xlarge, c7g.2xlarge, c7g.4xlarge, c7g.8xlarge, c7g.large, c7g.medium, c7g.metal, c7g.xlarge
Generationsc6g.medium, c7g.medium, c8g.medium, c9g.medium
Variantsc7a.medium, c7gd.medium, c7gn.medium
SageMakerml.c7g.medium
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth300 Mbps315 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput37.5 Mbps39.375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance2500 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 12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces22
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface44
IPv6 Addresses per Interface44
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.45x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.medium
c7g.medium
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.0245
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.0354
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.02550.0245
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.02550.0354
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.0395
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.0407
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.0408
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.0409
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.0412
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.0417
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.0417
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.0428
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.0429
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.0429
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.02880.0361
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.0434
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.0434
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.0449
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.0451
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.0454
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.0455
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.0455
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.0455
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.0472
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.0485
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.02910.0363
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.0495
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.0555
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.02940.0363
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.03210.0381
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.03330.0387
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.0388
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.0388
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.0395
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.0255n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.0255n/a
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