a1.medium vs m1.medium
| a1.medium | m1.medium |
| General purpose | General purpose |
| 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 | Obsolete. Not recommended for use Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 1 – Generation medium – Size |
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 GiB | 3.75 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | Intel Xeon Family |
| 2.3 GHz | |
| 1 | 1 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | m1.large, m1.medium, m1.small, m1.xlarge |
| m1.medium, m3.medium | |
| db.m1.medium | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 2 | |
| EBS only | 1 x 410 SSD |
| default | unsupported |
| supported | supported |
| required | unsupported |
| up to 3500 MBps | |
| 300 Mbps | |
| 37.5 Mbps | |
| 2500 IOPS | |
| 20000 IOPS | |
| 3500 Mbps | |
| 437.5 Mbps | |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Moderate |
| yes | no |
| 2 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 6 |
| 4 | |
| yes | no |
| required | unsupported |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 3.70x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.medium | m1.medium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.0255 | n/a |
| Europe | Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1) | n/a | 0.0950 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0255 | 0.0950 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.0288 | 0.1060 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.0291 | 0.1170 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.0294 | 0.1170 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.0321 | 0.1170 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.0333 | 0.1220 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.0255 | n/a |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.0255 | 0.0870 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.0870 |