a1.medium vs c7gn.medium

Instance Typea1.mediumc7gn.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
n – Network and EBS optimized
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.xlargec7gn.12xlarge, c7gn.16xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c7gn.large, c7gn.medium, c7gn.metal, c7gn.xlarge
Generationsc6gn.medium, c7gn.medium, c8gn.medium
Variantsc7a.medium, c7g.medium, c7gd.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 Mbps521 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput37.5 Mbps65.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance2500 IOPS2083 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 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 Diff1.00x2.38x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.medium
c7gn.medium
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.0255n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.02550.0705
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.02880.0787
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.0291n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.0294n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.0321n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.0333n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.02550.0624
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.02550.0624
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.0624
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