a1.metal vs z1d.metal
| a1.metal | z1d.metal |
| General purpose | Memory 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 memory and compute applications; suitable for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and certain relational database workloads. z – Zippy / Compute and memory optimized 1 – Generation d – Instance store volume metal – Bare metal |
| 16 | 48 |
| 32 GiB | 384 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | Intel Xeon Platinum 8151 |
| 2.3 GHz | 4 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | z1d.12xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.large, z1d.metal, z1d.xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 271 | |
| EBS only | 2 x 900 NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| 3500 MBps | 14000 MBps |
| 3500 Mbps | 19000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 2375 Mbps |
| 20000 IOPS | 80000 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 80000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 19000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 2375 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | 25 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 15 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 50 |
| 30 | 50 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 11.14x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.metal | z1d.metal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.4080 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.4080 | 4.7040 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4610 | 4.9920 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.4660 | 5.0640 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.4700 | 5.2730 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.5140 | 5.4000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.5330 | 5.4000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 5.4240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 5.4240 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 5.4480 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.4080 | 4.4640 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4080 | 4.4640 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 4.4640 |