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a1.metal vs c7gn.metal

Instance Typea1.metalc7gn.metal
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsObsolete. 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
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs1664
Memory32 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton3 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.6 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargec7gn.12xlarge, c7gn.16xlarge, c7gn.2xlarge, c7gn.4xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c7gn.large, c7gn.medium, c7gn.metal, c7gn.xlarge
Generationsc6gn.metal, c7gn.metal
Variantsc7g.metal, c7gd.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps40000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps33333 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps4166.625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS133333 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps5000 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit200 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces815
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces1
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x9.51x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
a1.metal
c7gn.metal
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40804.5120
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46105.0368
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.4660n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.4700n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.5140n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.5330n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.40803.9936
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40803.9936
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a3.9936
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