a1.medium vs m1.large

Instance Typea1.mediumm1.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
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
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
1 – Generation
large – Size
vCPUs12
Memory2 GiB7.5 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon Family
Clock Speed2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargem1.large, m1.medium, m1.small, m1.xlarge
Generationsm1.large, m3.large, m4.large, m5.large, m6i.large, m7i.large, m8i.large
RDSdb.m1.large
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units4
Instance StorageEBS only2 x 420 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth300 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput37.5 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance2500 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps62.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitModerate
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces23
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface410
IPv6 Addresses per Interface4
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x7.39x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.medium
m1.large
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.0255n/a
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a0.1900
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.02550.1900
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.02880.2110
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.02910.2330
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.02940.2330
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.03210.2330
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.03330.2430
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.0255n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.02550.1750
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.1750
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