a1.medium vs is4gen.medium
| a1.medium | is4gen.medium |
| General purpose | Storage 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 medium – Size | NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks. is – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to six ratio of vCPU to memory 4 – Generation g – AWS Graviton processor e – Extra storage or memory n – Network and EBS optimized medium – Size |
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 GiB | 6 GiB |
| arm64 | arm64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | AWS Graviton2 Processor |
| 2.3 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| 1 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | is4gen.2xlarge, is4gen.4xlarge, is4gen.8xlarge, is4gen.large, is4gen.medium, is4gen.xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 937 SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 3500 MBps | up to 9500 MBps |
| 300 Mbps | 625 Mbps |
| 37.5 Mbps | 78.125 Mbps |
| 2500 IOPS | 2500 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 40000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 10000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 1250 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 25 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 2 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 4 |
| 4 | 4 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 5.70x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.medium | is4gen.medium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.0255 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0255 | 0.1594 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.0288 | 0.1594 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.0291 | 0.1638 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.0294 | 0.1677 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.0321 | 0.1677 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.0333 | 0.1696 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.1721 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.1728 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.1728 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.0255 | 0.1441 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.0255 | 0.1441 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.1441 |