a1.medium vs t8i.medium

Instance Typea1.mediumt8i.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
Websites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
8 – Generation
i – Intel processor
medium – Size
vCPUs12
Memory2 GiB4 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.9 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarget8i.medium, t8i.micro, t8i.nano, t8i.small
Free Tiernono
Burstablenoyes
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 5000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth300 Mbps347 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput37.5 Mbps43.375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance2500 IOPS2000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps625 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 6.25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces23
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface46
IPv6 Addresses per Interface46
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.01x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.medium
t8i.medium
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.0255n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.02550.0538
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.0624
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.0634
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.0634
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.0653
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.02880.0538
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.02910.0547
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.02940.0557
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.03210.0566
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.03330.0566
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.0570
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.0576
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.0595
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.02550.0499
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.02550.0499
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.0499
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