a1.metal vs c6id.metal
| a1.metal | c6id.metal |
| General purpose | Compute 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 metal – Bare metal | High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. c – Compute optimized 6 – Generation i – Intel processor d – Instance store volume metal – Bare metal |
| 16 | 128 |
| 32 GiB | 256 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake) |
| 2.3 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | c6id.12xlarge, c6id.16xlarge, c6id.24xlarge, c6id.2xlarge, c6id.32xlarge, c6id.4xlarge, c6id.8xlarge, c6id.large, c6id.metal, c6id.xlarge |
| c6a.metal, c6g.metal, c6gd.metal, c6gn.metal, c6i.metal, c6in.metal | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| EBS only | 4 x 1900 NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| 3500 MBps | 40000 MBps |
| 3500 Mbps | 40000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 5000 Mbps |
| 20000 IOPS | 160000 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 160000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 40000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 5000 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | 50000 Megabit |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 15 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 50 |
| 30 | 50 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | yes |
| 1 | |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| 1.00x | 16.50x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.metal | c6id.metal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5) | n/a | 6.3974 |
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.4080 | n/a |
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7) | n/a | 6.3974 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.4080 | 6.4512 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 7.5264 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 7.6608 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 7.6909 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 7.7280 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 7.7280 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 7.7952 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 8.1984 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 8.4672 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | n/a | 8.8909 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | n/a | 10.0128 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4610 | 6.4512 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.4660 | 6.7738 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.4700 | 7.1232 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.5140 | 7.1232 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.5330 | 7.3248 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 7.3786 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 7.3920 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 7.4592 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.4080 | n/a |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4080 | 6.4512 |