mac2-m2pro.metal vs a1.metal

Instance Typemac2-m2pro.metala1.metal
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsProvides macOS access for developing, building, testing, and signing applications.

mac – Apple macOS
2 – Generation
m2pro – Apple M2 Pro processor
metal – Bare metal
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
vCPUs1216
Memory32 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorApple M2 ProAWS Graviton Processor
Clock Speed3.5 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesmac2-m2pro.metala1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge
Generationsmac-m4pro.metal, mac2-m2pro.metal
Variantsmac2-m1ultra.metal, mac2-m2.metal, mac2.metal
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput8192 MBps3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth8000 Mbps3500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1000 Mbps437.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance55000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance55000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth8000 Mbps3500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1000 Mbps437.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price DiffInfinityx

Regional Prices

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Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
mac2-m2pro.metal
a1.metal
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)n/a0.4080
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a0.4080
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.4610
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.4660
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.4700
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.5140
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.5330
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a0.4080
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a0.4080
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