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a1.metal vs i4i.metal

Instance Typea1.metali4i.metal
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage 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
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
4 – Generation
i – Intel processor
metal – Bare metal
vCPUs16128
Memory32 GiB1024 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargei4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS only8 x 3750 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBps40000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS160000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps40000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps5000 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit75000 Megabit
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 Diff1.00x28.20x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
a1.metal
i4i.metal
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.4080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.408011.4750
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a12.1090
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a12.4610
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a12.4610
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a12.7140
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a12.7420
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a12.7420
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a12.7420
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a12.8830
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a12.8830
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a12.8830
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.461011.5320
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a13.0940
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a13.1650
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a13.1650
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a13.1650
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a13.1650
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a13.2350
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a13.2350
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a13.3060
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a13.3060
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a13.8230
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.466011.5950
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a14.4040
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a14.4320
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a14.5020
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a17.5300
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.470011.8480
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.514011.8480
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.533012.1090
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a12.1090
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a12.1090
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a12.1090
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.408010.9820
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.408010.9820
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a10.9820
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