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a1.medium vs m8gn.medium

Instance Typea1.mediumm8gn.medium
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
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
medium – Size
vCPUs11
Memory2 GiB4 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargem8gn.12xlarge, m8gn.16xlarge, m8gn.24xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8gn.48xlarge, m8gn.4xlarge, m8gn.8xlarge, m8gn.large, m8gn.medium, m8gn.metal-24xl, m8gn.metal-48xl, m8gn.xlarge
Variantsm8a.medium, m8azn.medium, m8g.medium, m8gb.medium, m8gd.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 Mbps760 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput37.5 Mbps95 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 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 Diff1.00x2.57x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
a1.medium
m8gn.medium
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.0255n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.0255n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.0288n/a
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)0.0255n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.02550.0728
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.0728
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