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a1.metal vs g5g.metal

Instance Typea1.metalg5g.metal
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGPU instance
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
Machine Learning (ML), 3D visualizations, graphics-heavy remote workstations, 3D rendering, application streaming, video encoding, and server-side graphics tasks.

g – GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
5 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs1664
Memory32 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnoyes
GPU NameT4g
GPU ManufacturerNVIDIA
GPUs2
GPU Memory16 GiB
GPU Total Memory32 GiB
Inference Acceleratornono
Accelerator Memory32 GiB
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargeg5g.16xlarge, g5g.2xlarge, g5g.4xlarge, g5g.8xlarge, g5g.metal, g5g.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps19000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS80000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps19000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps2375 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces815
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x7.38x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
a1.metal
g5g.metal
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
EuropeEurope (Spain) (eu-south-2)n/a3.0622
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40803.3752
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46103.4326
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.46603.7039
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47003.8395
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51403.8395
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.5330n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.4080n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40802.7440
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a2.7440
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